[Nasm-devel] RDOFF users?

[John Keubler]

I have used it for building my own operating system on Windows 10 not
Linux.  Maybe we could replace it with another kind of linker.  It was
kind of nice not having to use a cross linker from another project to
build my operating system.

On 7/30/20, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems RDOFF output has been broken since at least the early 2.14
> series.  Fixing it without just papering over the problem will require
> some significant effort, due to a lot of bad assumptions in the RDOFF
> backend.
>
> Furthermore, the RDOFF format is really very limited. As such, I'm
> strongly inclined to kill it off, and remove both the (broken, asserts
> on invocation) RDOFF backend as well as the RDOFF tools from NASM.
>
> I would like to know if there are anyone out there who is actually using
> them, and/or if anyone would be willing to maintain the RDOFF backend
> and tools -- they have always been more of a nuisance than anything to me.
>
> 	-hpa
>