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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:33:06 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        kadag@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tutorial on assembler??
Message-ID:  <19981021173306.U21008@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <362D87FB.CBF95936@hotmail.com>; from kadag@hotmail.com on Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 03:06:36PM %2B0800
References:  <362D87FB.CBF95936@hotmail.com>

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On Wednesday, 21 October 1998 at 15:06:36 +0800, kadag@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to figure out the boot sector part of the FreeBSD source
> (/usr/src/sys/i386/biosboot/), but I find that they are not familiar to
> the style used in TASM or MASM etc, and they are of .S extension.

They should have an extension .s, not .S.

> Can anyone tell me where to find info on to learn about this particular
> style of assembly programming?

About the only thing I know is the gas documentation.  It doesn't
appear to be in the FreeBSD source tree, so you may have to get it
from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/.  It won't help much.

Greg
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