From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 21 01:03:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA27682 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 01:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA27673 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 01:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA16054; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:33:07 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA23177; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:33:06 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981021173306.U21008@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 17:33:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: kadag@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tutorial on assembler?? References: <362D87FB.CBF95936@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <362D87FB.CBF95936@hotmail.com>; from kadag@hotmail.com on Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 03:06:36PM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message