Mike: Now, %pragma macho subsections_via_symbols can't be enabled. So, will nasm generate the bigger image size than .S assembly on macho? If yes, I agree nasm is not same to .S. .S may be kept for a while. But, .asm is not necessary. We can remove .asm first.
Thanks Liming > -----Original Message----- > From: Kinney, Michael D > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 4:00 AM > To: Gao, Liming <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Kinney, > Michael D <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [RFC] Remove X86 .asm and .S assembly files in EDK2 > > Liming, > > After further evaluation on use of NASM with macho > there are a couple issues that need to be resolved > before the .asm and .S files can be removed from > all components. > > The details are at: > > https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=881 > > NASM issues to be resolved are: > > https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392469 > https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392470 > > The recommendation is to not switch to NASM only > for libraries until the dead code stripping feature > works as expected on macho. > > We can consider moving to NASM only for NASM files > in a module if there are no NASM functions that would > be dead stripped. The recommendation for these types > of NASM files is do not use the following pragma > until the NASM issues above are resolved. > > %pragma macho subsections_via_symbols > > Best regards, > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gao, Liming > > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 3:06 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [edk2] [RFC] Remove X86 .asm and .S assembly > > files in EDK2 > > > > Edk2 has used nasm assembly file for all tool chains. > > So, IA32 and X64 .asm and .S assembly files can be > > removed if their nasm files are ready. It can save the > > maintain effort and avoid the confuse. > > > > > > > > If you have any comments on this change, please let me > > know. > > > > Thanks > > Liming > > _______________________________________________ > > edk2-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
