From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 23 09:00:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA26695 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 09:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA26648 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 09:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dira.bris.ac.uk (dira.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.41]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA08575 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 06:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kukini.cs.bris.ac.uk by dira.bris.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 23 May 1997 14:58:15 +0100 Received: from maxx by kukini.compsci.bristol.ac.uk id aa17147; 23 May 97 13:43 GMT Received: from localhost by maxx.cs.bris.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA27996; Fri, 23 May 1997 14:58:38 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: assembler version... X-Address: Computer Science Dept., University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. X-Work-Phone: +44 (117) 954 5106 X-Attribution: Dave Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 14:58:37 +0100 Message-ID: <27995.864395917@maxx> From: David Hedley Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, Would it be possible to upgrade the version of the assembler /bin/as? The version which comes with 2.2.2-RELEASE is pretty ancient (1.92.3) and refuses to assemble a lot of hand-written code which use complex macros etc. I have installed version 2.8 (from binutils-2.8) on my system and it works fine. Could this be the standard assembler version for future FreeBSD releases? Regards, David -- David Hedley (hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk) finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK