On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 11:31 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Is YASM a fork of NASM? I've not looked into it, but I'm wondering why > another group would create a new assembler package when NASM has been > around so long and as far as I know, it has a non-restrictive license?
Not a fork - it's a completely unrelated project, albeit claiming some degree of nasm compatibility. I gather their biggest feature is that they supported x86_64 instructions pretty much from the beginning, about four or five years before nasm caught up. Besides, reinventing the wheel is practically a hobby for developers. It's fun, and also educational - it may or may not result in anything useful, but you at lease end up with a good understanding of the kind of problems involved. Writing a new assembler from scratch certainly sounds like something I'd have done, had I been interested in instruction sets... Simon.
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