Re: Dredging up bugs...

"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:

> What *does* make it work, however, is to change FILENAME_MAX and
> FILENAME_MAX_LG2 from equ's to %defines.  If I assemble with -O0, it
> complains that these are used before they are defined, which is incorrect.

FILENAME_MAX    equ (1 << FILENAME_MAX) ; Max mangled filename size

Can this be right??? Changing this to "1 << FILENAME_MAX_LG2" (wild
guess, but it seems more logical) - leaving both as "equ", and with the
default "-O0" - shuts Nasm up on this point. Now I'm getting an error
that "pc_getline" is undefined in "parseconfig.inc" (line 275).

Changing *this* equ to a "%define" seems to get me by that. Still need
to define "HEXDATE" and "DATESTR" on the command line. Now "-O0" won't
work - "short jump out of range". "-O1" give a "bootsector overflow".
"-O2" gives a (legitimate?) "phase error". "-O3" (and greater) seems
okay. With the "-O" switch, I can change back to an "equ" in
"parseconfig.inc"...

"make" still doesn't do it, but I think it's barfing on another file...
"cpp0: Too many arguments" from "syslinux.c"? At this point, I'm lost...

> In my case it emits an output file, but I have no way of knowing if it
> is any good.

An output file, but no list file??? That *is* weird! Damn! I'm not able
to get a list file either, even though the assembly seems to be going
okay! Hmmm... with "1 << FILENAME_MAX_LG2", all seems okay - getting a
list file. With the original "1 << FILENAME_MAX", no list file, and the
optimizer *does* appear to run for as many passes as you allow. Well,
that looks like an "infinite loop" to me, anyway. I claim it's "pilot
error", but Nasm could be coping with it better... I dunno...

Best,
Frank

P.S. On another topic entirely... should I apply Andreas' "slang"
patch???


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