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diff --git a/doc/changes.src b/doc/changes.src index 2c51a11e..d21ec721 100644 --- a/doc/changes.src +++ b/doc/changes.src @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ since 2007. don't use the \c{configure} script. Of the official release binaries, that only affects the OS/2 binary. -\b Correct the handling of nested %reps. +\b Correct the handling of nested \c{%reps}. \b Support for x87 packed BCD constants. @@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ creation. \b New compile date and time standard macros. -\b %ifnum now returns true for negative numbers. +\b \c{%ifnum} now returns true for negative numbers. -\b New %iftoken test for a single token. +\b New \c{%iftoken} test for a single token. -\b New %ifempty test for empty expansion. +\b New \c{%ifempty} test for empty expansion. \b Add support for the \c{XSAVE} instruction group. @@ -347,14 +347,14 @@ If you mean the latter, please say so! :) \b Add -Ov option to get verbose information about optimizations. -\b Undo a braindead change which broke %elif directives. +\b Undo a braindead change which broke \c{%elif} directives. \b Makefile updates. \S{cl-0.98.32} Version 0.98.32 -\b Fix NASM crashing when %macro directives were left unterminated. +\b Fix NASM crashing when \c{%macro} directives were left unterminated. \b Lots of documentation updates. @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ If you mean the latter, please say so! :) \b Lots of Makefile updates and bug fixes. -\b New %ifmacro directive to test for multiline macros. +\b New \c{%ifmacro} directive to test for multiline macros. \b Documentation updates. @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ it 0.98.28 to not confuse poor little apt-get. \S{cl-0.98.08} Version 0.98.08 -\b Add "%strlen" and "%substr" macro operators +\b Add "\c{%strlen}" and "\c{%substr}" macro operators \b Fixed broken c16.mac. @@ -737,17 +737,17 @@ line (response file is @resp rather than -@resp for NASM format). \b parser.c: Added support for TASM style memory references (ie: mov [DWORD eax],10 rather than the NASM style mov DWORD [eax],10). -\b preproc.c: Added new directives, %arg, %local, %stacksize to directives +\b preproc.c: Added new directives, \c{%arg}, \c{%local}, \c{%stacksize} to directives table \b Added support for TASM style directives without a leading % symbol. \b Integrated a block of changes from Andrew Zabolotny <bit@eltech.ru>: -\b A new keyword %xdefine and its case-insensitive counterpart %ixdefine. -They work almost the same way as %define and %idefine but expand +\b A new keyword \c{%xdefine} and its case-insensitive counterpart \c{%ixdefine}. +They work almost the same way as \c{%define} and \c{%idefine} but expand the definition immediately, not on the invocation. Something like a cross -between %define and %assign. The "x" suffix stands for "eXpand", so +between \c{%define} and \c{%assign}. The "x" suffix stands for "eXpand", so "xdefine" can be deciphered as "expand-and-define". Thus you can do things like this: @@ -783,14 +783,14 @@ in macros etc. For example: to work without warnings even in no context. \b Added a check for "cstk" in %if*ctx and %elif*ctx directives - - this allows to use %ifctx without excessive warnings. If there is - no active context, %ifctx goes through "false" branch. + this allows to use \c{%ifctx} without excessive warnings. If there is + no active context, \c{%ifctx} goes through "false" branch. -\b Removed "user error: " prefix with %error directive: it just clobbers the +\b Removed "user error: " prefix with \c{%error} directive: it just clobbers the output and has absolutely no functionality. Besides, this allows to write macros that does not differ from built-in functions in any way. -\b Added expansion of string that is output by %error directive. Now you +\b Added expansion of string that is output by \c{%error} directive. Now you can do things like: \c %define hello(x) Hello, x! @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ in macros etc. For example: \c %define %$name andy \c %error "hello(%$name)" - Same happened with %include directive. + Same happened with \c{%include} directive. \b Now all directives that expect an identifier will try to expand and concatenate everything without whitespaces in between before usage. @@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ in macros etc. For example: \c hello goodbyehello Not quite what you expected, eh? :-) The answer is that preprocessor - treats the %define construct as if it would be + treats the \c{%define} construct as if it would be \c %define __ %$abc goodbye @@ -827,8 +827,8 @@ in macros etc. For example: is more logical (and allows more advanced macro usage :-). Same change was applied to: - %push,%macro,%imacro,%define,%idefine,%xdefine,%ixdefine, - %assign,%iassign,%undef + \c{%push},\c{%macro},\c{%imacro},\c{%define},\c{%idefine},\c{%xdefine},\c{%ixdefine}, + \c{%assign},\c{%iassign},\c{%undef} \b A new directive [WARNING {+|-}warning-id] have been added. It works only if the assembly phase is enabled (i.e. it doesn't work with nasm -e). @@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ in macros etc. For example: %$a inside the "inner" context, it will take precedence over outer definition. However, this modification has been applied only to expand_smacro and not to smacro_define: as a consequence expansion - looks in outer contexts, but %ifdef won't look in outer contexts. + looks in outer contexts, but \c{%ifdef} won't look in outer contexts. This behaviour is needed because we don't want nested contexts to act on already defined local macros. Example: @@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ in macros etc. For example: is not valid anymore inside "if". Of course it could be worked around by using explicitely %$$arg1 but this is ugly IMHO. -\b Fixed memory leak in %undef. The origline wasn't freed before +\b Fixed memory leak in \c{%undef}. The origline wasn't freed before exiting on success. \b Fixed trap in preprocessor when line expanded to empty set of tokens. @@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ All changes since NASM 0.98p3 have been produced by H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.co \b Fixed opcodes with a third byte-sized immediate argument to not complain if given "byte" on the immediate. -\b Allow %undef to remove single-line macros with arguments. This +\b Allow \c{%undef} to remove single-line macros with arguments. This matches the behaviour of #undef in the C preprocessor. \b Allow -d, -u, -i and -p to be specified as -D, -U, -I and -P for @@ -1023,14 +1023,14 @@ All changes since NASM 0.98p3 have been produced by H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.co \b -M option to generate Makefile dependencies (based on code from Alex Verstak.) -\b %undef preprocessor directive, and -u option, that undefines a +\b \c{%undef} preprocessor directive, and -u option, that undefines a single-line macro. \b OS/2 Makefile (Mkfiles/Makefile.os2) for Borland under OS/2; from Chuck Crayne. \b Various minor bugfixes (reported by): - - Dangling %s in preproc.c (Martin Junker) + - Dangling \c{%s} in preproc.c (Martin Junker) \b THERE ARE KNOWN BUGS IN SSE AND THE OTHER KATMAI INSTRUCTIONS. I am on a trip and didn't bring the Katmai instruction reference, so I @@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ All changes since NASM 0.98p3 have been produced by H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.co \S{cl-0.98p3.3} Version 0.98p3.3 -\b Patch from Conan Brink to allow nesting of %rep directives. +\b Patch from Conan Brink to allow nesting of \c{%rep} directives. \b If we're going to allow INT01 as an alias for INT1/ICEBP (one of Jules 0.98p3 changes), then we should allow INT03 as an alias for INT3 @@ -1212,9 +1212,9 @@ filename. \b ndisasm wasn't outputting the TO keyword. Fixed. -\b Fixed error cascade on bogus expression in %if - an error in -evaluation was causing the entire %if to be discarded, thus creating -trouble later when the %else or %endif was encountered. +\b Fixed error cascade on bogus expression in \c{%if} - an error in +evaluation was causing the entire \c{%if} to be discarded, thus creating +trouble later when the \c{%else} or \c{%endif} was encountered. \b Forward reference tracking was instruction-granular not operand- granular, which was causing 286-specific code to be generated @@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ than after. \b Reformatted a lot of the source code to be more readable. Included 'coding.txt' as a guideline for how to format code for contributors. -\b Stopped nested %reps causing a panic - they now cause a slightly more +\b Stopped nested \c{%reps} causing a panic - they now cause a slightly more friendly error message instead. \b Fixed floating point constant problems (patch by Pedro Gimeno) @@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@ missing in 0.96 *blush* specifically objtest.asm. *blush again* \b Fixed seg-faults and bogus error messages caused by mismatching -%rep and %endrep within multi-line macro definitions. +\c{%rep} and \c{%endrep} within multi-line macro definitions. \b Fixed a problem with buffer overrun in OBJ, which was causing corruption at ends of long PUBDEF records. @@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@ be tested thoroughly. \b Fixed some buffer overrun problems with large OBJ output files. Thanks to DJ Delorie for the bug report and fix. -\b Made preprocess-only mode actually listen to the %line markers as it +\b Made preprocess-only mode actually listen to the \c{%line} markers as it prints them, so that it can report errors more sanely. \b Re-designed the evaluator to keep more sensible track of expressions @@ -1391,14 +1391,14 @@ work. \b Added the ability to specify sections' alignment requirements in Win32 object files and pure binary files. -\b Added preprocess-time expression evaluation: the %assign (and -%iassign) directive and the bare %if (and %elif) conditional. Added -relational operators to the evaluator, for use only in %if +\b Added preprocess-time expression evaluation: the \c{%assign} (and +\c{%iassign}) directive and the bare \c{%if} (and \c{%elif}) conditional. Added +relational operators to the evaluator, for use only in \c{%if} constructs: the standard relationals = < > <= >= <> (and C-like synonyms == and !=) plus low-precedence logical operators &&, ^^ and ||. -\b Added a preprocessor repeat construct: %rep / %exitrep / %endrep. +\b Added a preprocessor repeat construct: \c{%rep} / \c{%exitrep} / \c{%endrep}. \b Added the __FILE__ and __LINE__ standard macros. @@ -1419,8 +1419,8 @@ COMMON to take more than one argument. \b Added the IMPORT and EXPORT directives in OBJ format, to deal with Windows DLLs. -\b Added some more preprocessor %if constructs: %ifidn / %ifidni (exact -textual identity), and %ifid / %ifnum / %ifstr (token type testing). +\b Added some more preprocessor \c{%if} constructs: \c{%ifidn} / \c{%ifidni} (exact +textual identity), and \c{%ifid} / \c{%ifnum} / \c{%ifstr} (token type testing). \b Added the ability to distinguish SHL AX,1 (the 8086 version) from SHL AX,BYTE 1 (the 286-and-upwards version whose constant happens to |