freebsd asm

[Wes Peters]

On Monday 14 June 2004 07:04, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 01:59:11PM +0200, Jos? Nicol?s Castellano wrote:
> > Hello to all,
> >
> > I'm proud to join this mailing, having posibilities to learn some new
> > features of freebsd system.
> >
> > I have to mention i did some tests in asm from freebsd-devel and i get
> > surprised, look at this:
> >
> > [demon]~$ uname -a
> > FreeBSD demon.noconname.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4
> > #0: Tue Apr  6 19:35:49 CEST 2004
> > root at demon.noconname.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NocONName  i386
> >
> > [demon]~$ cat hello.asm
> > %include 'system.inc'
> > section .data
> > hola    db      'Hola', 0Ah
> > hbytes  equ     $-hola
> > section .text
> > global  _start
> > _start:
> > push    dword   hbytes
> > push    dword   hola
> > push    dword   stdout
> > sys.write
> > push    dword   0
> > sys.exit
> >
> > [demon]~$ nasm -f elf hello.asm
> > hello.asm:1: fatal: unable to open include file `system.inc'
> >
> > ?Where is that file?... the -current port of nasm is incomplete ?
>
> I assume you are referring to the system.inc file mentioned in
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/x86-
>portable-code.html If so, note that this page says that you need to create
> this file yourself, it is neither part of nasm nor part of the standard
> FreeBSD distribution :) See the last paragraph on the page - "Go ahead,
> enter it into your editor and save it as system.inc." :)

Gee, maybe somebody should do that and submit the file to krion@ for 
inclusion in the port patches. ;^)

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Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com