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>- GNU as is already part of djgpp, Linux, and BeOS. That leaves only MSVC
>and Watcom people having to download it specially, wheras everyone would
>have to download NASM (assuming that a majority of Allegro users don't
>already program in asm). Especially on Linux, but also to a lesser extent
>for djgpp, I'm very committed to source format distributions, which means
>building out of the box without requiring any non-standard tools.
Good point.
>- We already have a lot of code written in GNU format, and it would be a
>huge job to convert.
I could do that for you...
intel2gas -g *.s
>The really non-portable part is inline asm, but no matter what assembler you
>use that has to be rewritten for each compiler, so there is no way around
>that. There isn't much of it, anyway.
In fact, it should be possible to do it with some really disgusting macro
tricks. It is probably better to keep it as it is though, to avoid
obfuscation.
Erik