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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2007-09-19 21:41:27 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2007-09-19 21:41:27 -0700
commitd9a979559e76028f671891483134251656793d0c (patch)
tree9e0201304bf232a1c2afb3e67b9aa375c22b7870
parent8d024e7965efb208b0831ee7289329f85cf4433f (diff)
downloadnasm-d9a979559e76028f671891483134251656793d0c.tar.gz
Update manual pages
Update manual pages to include 64-bit support, and remove section about sync point limits in ndisasm.
-rw-r--r--nasm.110
-rw-r--r--ndisasm.17
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/nasm.1 b/nasm.1
index e3284406..7b5d2929 100644
--- a/nasm.1
+++ b/nasm.1
@@ -192,9 +192,10 @@ is reserved using the
.IR RESB ,
.IR RESW ,
.IR RESD ,
-.I RESQ
-and
+.IR RESQ ,
.I REST
+and
+.I RESO
pseudo-opcodes, each taking one parameter which gives the number of
bytes, words, doublewords, quadwords or ten-byte words to reserve.
.PP
@@ -297,9 +298,10 @@ finished doing absolute assembly, you must issue another
.I SECTION
directive to return to normal assembly.
.PP
-.I BITS 16
-or
+.I BITS 16,
.I BITS 32
+or
+.I BITS 64
switches the default processor mode for which
.B nasm
is generating code: it is equivalent to
diff --git a/ndisasm.1 b/ndisasm.1
index d48a1827..622500f9 100644
--- a/ndisasm.1
+++ b/ndisasm.1
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ means of examining the target addresses of the relative jumps and
calls it disassembles.
.TP
.BI \-b " bits"
-Specifies either 16-bit or 32-bit mode. The default is 16-bit mode.
+Specifies 16-, 32- or 64-bit mode. The default is 16-bit mode.
.TP
.B \-u
Specifies 32-bit mode, more compactly than using `-b 32'.
@@ -125,10 +125,5 @@ or calls result from disassembling non-machine-code data, sync
markers may get placed in strange places. Feel free to turn
auto-sync off and go back to doing it manually if necessary.
.PP
-.B ndisasm
-can only keep track of 8192 sync markers internally at once: this is
-to do with portability, since DOS machines don't take kindly to more
-than 64K being allocated at a time.
-.PP
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR objdump "(" 1 ")."