laag-nasm 2.13.03.2

data/vendor/repo.or.cz/nasm/disasm/sync.h

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+/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *
+ *   
+ *   Copyright 1996-2009 The NASM Authors - All Rights Reserved
+ *   See the file AUTHORS included with the NASM distribution for
+ *   the specific copyright holders.
+ *
+ *   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ *   modification, are permitted provided that the following
+ *   conditions are met:
+ *
+ *   * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+ *     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+ *   * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
+ *     copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
+ *     disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
+ *     with the distribution.
+ *     
+ *     THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND
+ *     CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
+ *     INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
+ *     MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+ *     DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR
+ *     CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+ *     SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
+ *     NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
+ *     LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+ *     HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+ *     CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
+ *     OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
+ *     EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+ *
+ * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+/* 
+ * sync.h   header file for sync.c
+ */
+
+#ifndef NASM_SYNC_H
+#define NASM_SYNC_H
+
+void init_sync(void);
+void add_sync(uint64_t position, uint32_t length);
+uint64_t next_sync(uint64_t position, uint32_t *length);
+
+#endif

data/vendor/repo.or.cz/nasm/doc/Makefile.in

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+#
+# UNIX Makefile for NASM documentation
+#
+
+top_srcdir	= @top_srcdir@
+srcdir		= @srcdir@
+VPATH		= @srcdir@
+prefix		= @prefix@
+exec_prefix	= @exec_prefix@
+bindir		= @bindir@
+mandir		= @mandir@
+docdir		= $(prefix)/doc/nasm
+infodir		= @infodir@
+datarootdir	= @datarootdir@
+
+INSTALL		= @INSTALL@
+INSTALL_PROGRAM	= @INSTALL_PROGRAM@
+INSTALL_DATA	= @INSTALL_DATA@
+
+PERL		= perl -I$(srcdir)
+
+PDFOPT		= @PDFOPT@
+
+RM_F		= rm -f
+RM_RF		= rm -rf
+CP_F		= cp -f
+CP_UF		= cp -ufv
+
+# Auxiliary files referenced by the HTML files
+HTMLAUX		= nasmdoc.css local.css nasmlogw.png
+
+SRCS		= nasmdoc.src inslist.src changes.src version.src
+OUT		= html nasmdoc.txt nasmdoc.pdf
+
+.SUFFIXES: .pfa .ph
+
+all: $(OUT)
+
+inslist.src: inslist.pl ../x86/insns.dat
+	$(PERL) $(srcdir)/inslist.pl $(srcdir)/../x86/insns.dat
+
+.PHONY: html
+html: $(HTMLAUX)
+	mkdir -p html
+	for f in $(HTMLAUX); do $(CP_UF) "$(srcdir)/$$f" html/; done
+	$(MAKE) html/nasmdoc0.html
+
+RDSRC = $(PERL) $(srcdir)/rdsrc.pl -I$(srcdir)/
+
+html/nasmdoc0.html: $(SRCS) rdsrc.pl
+	$(RM_F) html/*.html
+	$(RDSRC) -ohtml html nasmdoc.src
+
+nasmdoc.dip: $(SRCS) rdsrc.pl
+	$(RDSRC) dip nasmdoc.src
+
+nasmdoc.txt: $(SRCS) rdsrc.pl
+	$(RDSRC) txt nasmdoc.src
+
+version.src: $(top_srcdir)/version.pl $(top_srcdir)/version
+	$(PERL) $(top_srcdir)/version.pl docsrc \
+		< $(top_srcdir)/version > version.src
+
+nasmdoc.ps: nasmdoc.dip genps.pl afmmetrics.ph ttfmetrics.ph \
+	pswidth.ph nasmlogo.eps psfonts.ph head.ps
+	$(PERL) $(srcdir)/genps.pl -epsdir "$(srcdir)" \
+		-headps $(srcdir)/head.ps nasmdoc.dip \
+		> nasmdoc.ps
+
+nasmdoc.pdf: nasmdoc.ps pspdf.pl
+	$(PERL) $(srcdir)/pspdf.pl $(PDFOPT) nasmdoc.ps nasmdoc.pdf
+
+clean:
+	-$(RM_F) *.rtf *.hpj *.texi *.gid *.ipf *.dip
+	-$(RM_F) *.aux *.cp *.fn *.ky *.pg *.log *.toc *.tp *.vr
+	-$(RM_F) inslist.src version.src
+	-$(RM_F) nasmdoc*.ps
+
+spotless: clean
+	-$(RM_RF) html info
+	-$(RM_F) *.hlp nasmdoc.txt *.inf *.pdf *.dvi
+
+install: all
+	mkdir -p $(INSTALLROOT)$(docdir)/html
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) html/* $(INSTALLROOT)$(docdir)/html
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) nasmdoc.pdf nasmdoc.txt $(INSTALLROOT)$(docdir)

data/vendor/repo.or.cz/nasm/doc/README

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+To build the entire documentation, the following tools are needed:
+
+1. A Perl interpreter for your platform
+2. The following Perl modules available from CPAN:
+   Font::TTF
+   Sort::Versions
+3. asciidoc
+   http://asciidoc.org/
+4. xmlto
+   https://fedorahosted.org/xmlto
+5. One of:
+	Adobe Acrobat (acrodist)
+	Ghostscript (ps2pdf) http://download.ghostscript.com/
+	pstopdf	(available on some BSD-derived Unix systems)
+
+	Of these, Ghostscript is the most tested, although Acrobat has
+	been claimed to generate smaller files.
+6. For best results, the Adobe fonts Source Sans Pro and Source Code
+   Pro, available for free at:
+   https://github.com/adobe-fonts

data/vendor/repo.or.cz/nasm/doc/afmmetrics.ph

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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+## --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+##
+##   Copyright 1996-2017 The NASM Authors - All Rights Reserved
+##   See the file AUTHORS included with the NASM distribution for
+##   the specific copyright holders.
+##
+##   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+##   modification, are permitted provided that the following
+##   conditions are met:
+##
+##   * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+##     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+##   * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
+##     copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
+##     disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
+##     with the distribution.
+##
+##     THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND
+##     CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
+##     INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
+##     MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+##     DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR
+##     CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+##     SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
+##     NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
+##     LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+##     HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+##     CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
+##     OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,
+##     EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+##
+## --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#
+# Parse AFM metric file, returns a reference to fontdata
+#
+sub parse_afm_file($$) {
+    my($filename, $filetype) = @_;
+
+    my $fontdata = {
+	widths => {},
+	kern => {}
+    };
+
+    my $charmetrics = 0;
+    my $kerndata = 0;
+    my $charcode, $width, $name;
+
+    my $fontfile = $filename.'.'.$filetype;
+    return undef unless ( -f $fontfile );
+
+    $fontdata->{file} = $fontfile;
+    $fontdata->{type} = $filetype;
+    $fontdata->{scale} = 1000;	# AFM metrics always have scale 1000
+
+    return undef unless (open(my $fh, '<', $filename.'.afm'));
+
+    while ( my $line = <$fh> ) {
+	if ( $line =~ /^\s*FontName\s+(.*)\s*$/i ) {
+	    $fontdata->{'name'} = $1;
+	} elsif ( $line =~ /^\s*StartCharMetrics\b/i ) {
+	    $charmetrics = 1;
+	} elsif ( $line =~ /^\s*EndCharMetrics\b/i ) {
+	    $charmetrics = 0;
+	} elsif ( $line =~ /^\s*StartKernPairs\b/i ) {
+	    $kerndata = 1;
+	} elsif ( $line =~ /^\s*EndKernPairs\b/i ) {
+	    $kerndata = 0;
+	} elsif ( $charmetrics ) {
+	    my @data = split(/\s*;\s*/, $line);
+	    undef $charcode, $width, $name;
+	    foreach my $d ( @data ) {
+		my @dd = split(/\s+/, $d);
+		if ( $dd[0] eq 'C' ) {
+		    $charcode = $dd[1];
+		} elsif ( $dd[0] eq 'WX' ) {
+		    $width = $dd[1];
+		} elsif ( $dd[0] eq 'W' ) {
+		    $width = $dd[2];
+		} elsif ( $dd[0] eq 'N' ) {
+		    $name = $dd[1];
+		}
+	    }
+	    if ( defined($name) && defined($width) ) {
+		$fontdata->{widths}{$name} = $width;
+	    }
+	} elsif ( $kerndata ) {
+	    my($kpx, $a, $b, $adj) = split(/\s+/, $line);
+	    if ( $kpx eq 'KPX' ) {
+		if (!exists($fontdata->{kern}{$a})) {
+		    $fontdata->{kern}{$a} = {};
+		}
+		$fontdata->{kern}{$a}{$b} = $adj;
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+
+    return $fontdata;
+}
+
+1;

data/vendor/repo.or.cz/nasm/doc/changes.src

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+\#
+\# NASM revision history in nasmdoc format
+\#
+
+\H{cl-2.xx} NASM 2 Series
+
+The NASM 2 series supports x86-64, and is the production version of NASM
+since 2007.
+
+\S{cl-2.13.03} Version 2.13.03
+
+\b Added AVX and AVX512 \c{VAES*} and \c{VPCLMULQDQ} instructions.
+
+\b Fixed missing dwarf record in x32 ELF output format.
+
+\S{cl-2.13.02} Version 2.13.02
+
+\b Fix false positive in testing of numeric overflows.
+
+\b Fix generation of \c{PEXTRW} instruction.
+
+\b Fix \c{smartalign} package which could trigger an error during
+   optimization if the alignment code expanded too much due to
+   optimization of the previous code.
+
+\b Fix a case where negative value in \c{TIMES} directive causes
+   panic instead of an error.
+
+\b Always finalize \c{.debug_abbrev} section with a null in
+   \c{dwarf} output format.
+
+\b Support \c{debug} flag in section attributes for \c{macho}
+   output format.  See \k{machosect}.
+
+\b Support up to 16 characters in section names for \c{macho}
+   output format.
+
+\b Fix missing update of global \c{BITS} setting if \c{SECTION}
+   directive specified a bit size using output format-specific
+   extensions (e.g. \c{USE32} for the \c{obj} output format.)
+
+\b Fix the incorrect generation of VEX-encoded instruction when static
+   mode decorators are specified on scalar instructions, losing the
+   decorators as they require EVEX encoding.
+
+\b Option \c{-MW} to quote dependency outputs according to Watcom
+   Make conventions instead of POSIX Make conventions.  See \k{opt-MW}.
+
+\b The \c{obj} output format now contains embedded dependency file
+   information, unless disabled with \c{%pragma obj nodepend}.  See
+   \k{objdepend}.
+
+\b Fix generation of dependency lists.
+
+\b Fix a number of null pointer reference and memory allocation errors.
+
+\b Always generate symbol-relative relocations for the \c{macho64}
+   output format; at least some versions of the XCode/LLVM linker fails
+   for section-relative relocations.
+
+\S{cl-2.13.01} Version 2.13.01
+
+\b Fix incorrect output for some types of \c{FAR} or \c{SEG}
+   references in the \c{obj} output format, and possibly other 16-bit
+   output formats.
+
+\b Fix the address in the list file for an instruction containing a
+   \c{TIMES} directive.
+
+\b Fix error with \c{TIMES} used together with an instruction which
+   can vary in size, e.g. \c{JMP}.
+
+\b Fix breakage on some uses of the \c{DZ} pseudo-op.
+
+\S{cl-2.13} Version 2.13
+
+\b Support the official forms of the \c{UD0} and \c{UD1} instructions.
+
+\b Allow self-segment-relative expressions in immediates and
+   displacements, even when combined with an external or otherwise
+   out-of-segment special symbol, e.g.:
+
+\c      extern foo
+\c      mov eax,[foo - $ + ebx]               ; Now legal
+
+\b Handle a 64-bit origin in NDISASM.
+
+\b NASM can now generate sparse output files for relevant output
+   formats, if the underlying operating system supports them.
+
+\b The \c{macho} object format now supports the \c{subsections_via_symbols}
+   and \c{no_dead_strip} directives, see \k{macho-ssvs}.
+
+\b The \c{macho} object format now supports the \c{no_dead_strip},
+  \c{live_support} and \c{strip_static_syms} section flags, see
+  \k{machosect}.
+
+\b The \c{macho} object format now supports the \c{dwarf} debugging
+  format, as required by newer toolchains.
+
+\b All warnings can now be suppressed if desired; warnings not
+   otherwise part of any warning class are now considered its own
+   warning class called \c{other} (e.g. \c{-w-other}).  Furthermore,
+   warning-as-error can now be controlled on a per warning class
+   basis, using the syntax \c{-w+error=}\e{warning-class} and its
+   equivalent for all other warning control options.  See \k{opt-w}
+   for the command-line options and warning classes and
+   \k{asmdir-warning} for the \c{[WARNING]} directive.
+
+\b Fix a number of bugs related to AVX-512 decorators.
+
+\b Significant improvements to building NASM with Microsoft Visual
+   Studio via \c{Mkfiles/msvc.mak}.  It is now possible to build the
+   full Windows installer binary as long as the necessary
+   prerequisites are installed; see \c{Mkfiles/README}
+
+\b To build NASM with custom modifications (table changes) or from the
+   git tree now requires Perl 5.8 at the very minimum, quite possibly
+   a higher version (Perl 5.24.1 tested.)  There is no requirement to
+   have Perl on your system at all if all you want to do is build
+   unmodified NASM from source archives.
+
+\b Fix the \c{\{z\}} decorator on AVX-512 \c{VMOVDQ*} instructions.
+
+\b Add new warnings for certain dangerous constructs which never ought
+   to have been allowed.  In particular, the \c{RESB} family of
+   instructions should have been taking a critical expression all
+   along.
+
+\b Fix the EVEX (AVX-512) versions of the \c{VPBROADCAST}, \c{VPEXTR},
+   and \c{VPINSR} instructions.
+
+\b Support contracted forms of additional instructions.  As a general
+   rule, if an instruction has a non-destructive source immediately
+   after a destination register that isn't used as an input, NASM
+   supports omitting that source register, using the destination
+   register as that value.  This among other things makes it easier to
+   convert SSE code to the equivalent AVX code:
+
+\c      addps xmm1,xmm0                       ; SSE instruction
+\c      vaddps ymm1,ymm1,ymm0                 ; AVX official long form
+\c      vaddps ymm1,ymm0                      ; AVX contracted form
+
+\b Fix Codeview malformed compiler version record.
+
+\b Add the \c{CLWB} and \c{PCOMMIT} instructions.  Note that the
+   \c{PCOMMIT} instruction has been deprecated and will never be
+   included in a shipping product; it is included for completeness
+   only.
+
+\b Add the \c{%pragma} preprocessor directive for soft-error directives.
+
+\b Add the \c{RDPID} instruction.
+
+\S{cl-2.12.02} Version 2.12.02
+
+\b Fix preprocessor errors, especially \c{%error} and \c{%warning},
+   inside \c{%if} statements.
+
+\b Fix relative relocations in 32-bit Mach-O.
+
+\b More Codeview debug format fixes.
+
+\b If the MASM \c{PTR} keyword is encountered, issue a warning.  This is
+   much more likely to indicate a MASM-ism encountered in NASM than it
+   is a valid label.  This warning can be suppressed with \c{-w-ptr},
+   the \c{[warning]} directive (see \k{opt-w}) or by the macro
+   definition \c{%idefine ptr $%?} (see \k{selfref%?}).
+
+\b When an error or a warning comes from the expansion of a multi-line
+   macro, display the file and line numbers for the expanded macros.
+   Macros defined with \c{.nolist} do not get displayed.
+
+\b Add macros \c{ilog2fw()} and \c{ilog2cw()} to the \c{ifunc} macro
+   package.  See \k{ilog2}.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.12.01} Version 2.12.01
+
+\b Portability fixes for some platforms.
+
+\b Fix error when not specifying a list file.
+
+\b Correct the handling of macro-local labels in the Codeview
+   debugging format.
+
+\b Add \c{CLZERO}, \c{MONITORX} and \c{MWAITX} instructions.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.12} Version 2.12
+
+\b Major fixes to the \c{macho} backend (\k{machofmt}); earlier versions
+   would produce invalid symbols and relocations on a regular basis.
+
+\b Support for thread-local storage in Mach-O.
+
+\b Support for arbitrary sections in Mach-O.
+
+\b Fix wrong negative size treated as a big positive value passed into
+   backend causing NASM to crash.
+
+\b Fix handling of zero-extending unsigned relocations, we have been printing
+   wrong message and forgot to assign segment with predefined value before
+   passing it into output format.
+
+\b Fix potential write of oversized (with size greater than allowed in
+   output format) relative relocations.
+
+\b Portability fixes for building NASM with the LLVM compiler.
+
+\b Add support of Codeview version 8 (\c{cv8}) debug format for
+   \c{win32} and \c{win64} formats in the \c{COFF} backend,
+   see \k{codeview}.
+
+\b Allow 64-bit outputs in 16/32-bit only backends.  Unsigned 64-bit
+   relocations are zero-extended from 32-bits with a warning
+   (suppressible via \c{-w-zext-reloc}); signed 64-bit relocations are
+   an error.
+
+\b Line numbers in list files now correspond to the lines in the source
+   files, instead of simply being sequential.
+
+\b There is now an official 64-bit (x64 a.k.a. x86-64) build for Windows.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.11.09} Version 2.11.09
+
+\b Fix potential stack overwrite in \c{macho32} backend.
+
+\b Fix relocation records in \c{macho64} backend.
+
+\b Fix symbol lookup computation in \c{macho64} backend.
+
+\b Adjust \c{.symtab} and \c{.rela.text} sections alignments to 8 bytes
+   in \c{elf64} backed.
+
+\b Fix section length computation in \c{bin} backend which leaded in incorrect
+   relocation records.
+
+\S{cl-2.11.08} Version 2.11.08
+
+\b Fix section length computation in \c{bin} backend which leaded in incorrect
+   relocation records.
+
+\b Add a warning for numeric preprocessor definitions passed via command
+   line which might have unexpected results otherwise.
+
+\b Add ability to specify a module name record in \c{rdoff} linker with
+   \c{-mn} option.
+
+\b Increase label length capacity up to 256 bytes in \c{rdoff} backend for
+   FreePascal sake, which tends to generate very long labels for procedures.
+
+\b Fix segmentation failure when rip addressing is used in \c{macho64} backend.
+
+\b Fix access on out of memory when handling strings with a single
+   grave. We have sixed similar problem in previous release but not
+   all cases were covered.
+
+\b Fix NULL dereference in disassembled on \c{BND} instruction.
+
+\S{cl-2.11.07} Version 2.11.07
+
+\b Fix 256 bit \c{VMOVNTPS} instruction.
+
+\b Fix \c{-MD} option handling, which was rather broken in previous
+release changing command line api.
+
+\b Fix access to unitialized space when handling strings with
+a single grave.
+
+\b Fix nil dereference in handling memory reference parsing.
+
+\S{cl-2.11.06} Version 2.11.06
+
+\b Update AVX512 instructions based on the Extension Reference (319433-021 Sept
+2014).
+
+\b Fix the behavior of \c{-MF} and \c{-MD} options (Bugzilla 3392280)
+
+\b Updated Win32 Makefile to fix issue with build
+
+\S{cl-2.11.05} Version 2.11.05
+
+\b Add \c{--v} as an alias for \c{-v} (see \k{opt-v}), for
+command-line compatibility with Yasm.
+
+\b Fix a bug introduced in 2.11.03 whereby certain instructions would
+contain multiple REX prefixes, and thus be corrupt.
+
+\S{cl-2.11.04} Version 2.11.04
+
+\b Removed an invalid error checking code. Sometimes a memref only with
+a displacement can also set an evex flag. For example:
+
+\c       vmovdqu32 [0xabcd]{k1}, zmm0
+
+\b Fixed a bug in disassembler that EVEX.L'L vector length was not matched
+when EVEX.b was set because it was simply considered as EVEC.RC.
+Separated EVEX.L'L case from EVEX.RC which is ignored in matching.
+
+\S{cl-2.11.03} Version 2.11.03
+
+\b Fix a bug there REX prefixes were missing on instructions inside a
+\c{TIMES} statement.
+
+\S{cl-2.11.02} Version 2.11.02
+
+\b Add the \c{XSAVEC}, \c{XSAVES} and \c{XRSTORS} family instructions.
+
+\b Add the \c{CLFLUSHOPT} instruction.
+
+\S{cl-2.11.01} Version 2.11.01
+
+\b Allow instructions which implicitly uses \c{XMM0} (\c{VBLENDVPD},
+\c{VBLENDVPS}, \c{PBLENDVB} and \c{SHA256RNDS2}) to be specified
+without an explicit \c{xmm0} on the assembly line.  In other words,
+the following two lines produce the same output:
+
+\c      vblendvpd xmm2,xmm1,xmm0      ; Last operand is fixed xmm0
+\c      vblendvpd xmm2,xmm1           ; Implicit xmm0 omitted
+
+\b In the ELF backends, don't crash the assembler if \c{section align}
+is specified without a value.
+
+\S{cl-2.11} Version 2.11
+
+\b Add support for the Intel AVX-512 instruction set:
+
+\b 16 new, 512-bit SIMD registers. Total 32 \c{(ZMM0 ~ ZMM31)}
+
+\b 8 new opmask registers \c{(K0 ~ K7)}. One of 7 registers \c{(K1 ~ K7)} can
+be used as an opmask for conditional execution.
+
+\b A new EVEX encoding prefix. EVEX is based on VEX and provides more
+capabilities: opmasks, broadcasting, embedded rounding and compressed
+displacements.
+
+\c  - opmask
+\c      VDIVPD zmm0{k1}{z}, zmm1, zmm3  ; conditional vector operation
+\c                                      ; using opmask k1.
+\c                                      ; {z} is for zero-masking
+\c  - broadcasting
+\c      VDIVPS zmm4, zmm5, [rbx]{1to16} ; load single-precision float and
+\c                                      ; replicate it 16 times. 32 * 16 = 512
+\c  - embedded rounding
+\c      VCVTSI2SD xmm6, xmm7, {rz-sae}, rax ; round toward zero. note that it
+\c                                       ; is used as if a separate operand.
+\c                                       ; it comes after the last SIMD operand
+
+\b Add support for \c{ZWORD} (512 bits), \c{DZ} and \c{RESZ}.
+
+\b Add support for the MPX and SHA instruction sets.
+
+\b Better handling of section redefinition.
+
+\b Generate manpages when running \c{'make dist'}.
+
+\b Handle all token chains in mmacro params range.
+
+\b Support split [base,index] effective address:
+
+\c      mov eax,[eax+8,ecx*4]   ; eax=base, ecx=index, 4=scale, 8=disp
+
+This is expected to be most useful for the MPX instructions.
+
+\b Support \c{BND} prefix for branch instructions (for MPX).
+
+\b The \c{DEFAULT} directive can now take \c{BND} and \c{NOBND}
+options to indicate whether all relevant branches should be getting
+\c{BND} prefixes.  This is expected to be the normal for use in MPX
+code.
+
+\b Add \c{{evex}}, \c{{vex3}} and \c{{vex2}} instruction prefixes to
+have NASM encode the corresponding instruction, if possible, with an EVEX,
+3-byte VEX, or 2-byte VEX prefix, respectively.
+
+\b Support for section names longer than 8 bytes in Win32/Win64 COFF.
+
+\b The \c{NOSPLIT} directive by itself no longer forces a single
+register to become an index register, unless it has an explicit
+multiplier.
+
+\c      mov eax,[nosplit eax]       ; eax as base register
+\c      mov eax,[nosplit eax*1]     ; eax as index register
+
+\S{cl-2.10.09} Version 2.10.09
+
+\b Pregenerate man pages.
+
+\S{cl-2.10.08} Version 2.10.08
+
+\b Fix \c{VMOVNTDQA}, \c{MOVNTDQA} and \c{MOVLPD} instructions.
+
+\b Fix collision for \c{VGATHERQPS}, \c{VPGATHERQD} instructions.
+
+\b Fix \c{VPMOVSXBQ}, \c{VGATHERQPD}, \c{VSPLLW} instructions.
+
+\b Add a bunch of AMD TBM instructions.
+
+\b Fix potential stack overwrite in numbers conversion.
+
+\b Allow byte size in \c{PREFETCHTx} instructions.
+
+\b Make manual pages up to date.
+
+\b Make \c{F3} and \c{F2} SSE prefixes to override \c{66}.
+
+\b Support of AMD SVM instructions in 32 bit mode.
+
+\b Fix near offsets code generation for \c{JMP}, \c{CALL} instrictions
+in long mode.
+
+\b Fix preprocessor parse regression when id is expanding to a whitespace.
+
+\S{cl-2.10.07} Version 2.10.07
+
+\b Fix line continuation parsing being broken in previous version.
+
+\S{cl-2.10.06} Version 2.10.06
+
+\b Always quote the dependency source names when using the automatic
+dependency generation options.
+
+\b If no dependency target name is specified via the \c{-MT} or
+\c{-MQ} options, quote the default output name.
+
+\b Fix assembly of shift operations in \c{CPU 8086} mode.
+
+\b Fix incorrect generation of explicit immediate byte for shift by 1
+under certain circumstances.
+
+\b Fix assembly of the \c{VPCMPGTQ} instruction.
+
+\b Fix RIP-relative relocations in the \c{macho64} backend.
+
+\S{cl-2.10.05} Version 2.10.05
+
+\b Add the \c{CLAC} and \c{STAC} instructions.
+
+\S{cl-2.10.04} Version 2.10.04
+
+\b Add back the inadvertently deleted 256-bit version of the \c{VORPD}
+instruction.
+
+\b Correct disassembly of instructions starting with byte \c{82} hex.
+
+\b Fix corner cases in token pasting, for example:
+
+\c    %define N 1e%++%+ 5
+\c            dd N, 1e+5
+
+\S{cl-2.10.03} Version 2.10.03
+
+\b Correct the assembly of the instruction:
+
+\c XRELEASE MOV [absolute],AL
+
+\> Previous versions would incorrectly generate \c{F3 A2} for this
+instruction and issue a warning; correct behavior is to emit \c{F3 88
+05}.
+
+\S{cl-2.10.02} Version 2.10.02
+
+\b Add the \c{ifunc} macro package with integer functions, currently
+only integer logarithms.  See \k{pkg_ifunc}.
+
+\b Add the \c{RDSEED}, \c{ADCX} and \c{ADOX} instructions.
+
+\S{cl-2.10.01} Version 2.10.01
+
+\b Add missing VPMOVMSKB instruction with reg32, ymmreg operands.
+
+\S{cl-2.10} Version 2.10
+
+\b When optimization is enabled, \c{mov r64,imm} now optimizes to the
+  shortest form possible between:
+
+\c      mov r32,imm32                   ;  5 bytes
+\c      mov r64,imm32                   ;  7 bytes
+\c      mov r64,imm64                   ; 10 bytes
+
+\> To force a specific form, use the \c{STRICT} keyword, see \k{strict}.
+
+\b Add support for the Intel AVX2 instruction set.
+
+\b Add support for Bit Manipulation Instructions 1 and 2.
+
+\b Add support for Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX).
+
+\b Add support for x32 ELF (32-bit ELF with the CPU in 64-bit mode.)
+   See \k{elffmt}.
+
+\b Add support for bigendian UTF-16 and UTF-32.  See \k{unicode}.
+
+\S{cl-2.09.10} Version 2.09.10
+
+\b Fix up NSIS script to protect uninstaller against registry keys
+   absence or corruption. It brings in a few additional questions
+   to a user during deinstallation procedure but still it is better
+   than unpredictable file removal.
+
+\S{cl-2.09.09} Version 2.09.09
+
+\b Fix initialization of section attributes of \c{bin} output format.
+
+\b Fix \c{mach64} output format bug that crashes NASM due to NULL symbols.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.09.08} Version 2.09.08
+
+\b Fix \c{__OUTPUT_FORMAT__} assignment when output driver alias
+   is used. For example when \c{-f elf} is used \c{__OUTPUT_FORMAT__}
+   must be set to \c{elf}, if \c{-f elf32} is used \c{__OUTPUT_FORMAT__}
+   must be assigned accordingly, i.e. to \c{elf32}. The rule applies to
+   all output driver aliases. See \k{ofmtm}.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.09.07} Version 2.09.07
+
+\b Fix attempts to close same file several times
+   when \c{-a} option is used.
+
+\b Fixes for VEXTRACTF128, VMASKMOVPS encoding.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.09.06} Version 2.09.06
+
+\b Fix missed section attribute initialization in \c{bin} output target.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.09.05} Version 2.09.05
+
+\b Fix arguments encoding for VPEXTRW instruction.
+
+\b Remove invalid form of VPEXTRW instruction.
+
+\b Add \c{VLDDQU} as alias for \c{VLDQQU} to
+   match specification.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.09.04} Version 2.09.04
+
+\b Fix incorrect labels offset for VEX intructions.
+
+\b Eliminate bogus warning on implicit operand size override.
+
+\b \c{%if} term could not handle 64 bit numbers.
+
+\b The COFF backend was limiting relocations number to 16 bits even if
+   in real there were a way more relocations.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.09.03} Version 2.09.03
+
+\b Print \c{%macro} name inside \c{%rep} blocks on error.
+
+\b Fix preprocessor expansion behaviour. It happened sometime
+   too early and sometime simply wrong. Move behaviour back to
+   the origins (down to NASM 2.05.01).
+
+\b Fix unitialized data dereference on OMF output format.
+
+\b Issue warning on unterminated \c{%{} construct.
+
+\b Fix for documentation typo.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.09.02} Version 2.09.02
+
+\b Fix reversed tokens when \c{%deftok} produces more than one output token.
+
+\b Fix segmentation fault on disassembling some VEX instructions.
+
+\b Missing \c{%endif} did not always cause error.
+
+\b Fix typo in documentation.
+
+\b Compound context local preprocessor single line macro identifiers
+  were not expanded early enough and as result lead to unresolved
+  symbols.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.09.01} Version 2.09.01
+
+\b Fix NULL dereference on missed %deftok second parameter.
+
+\b Fix NULL dereference on invalid %substr parameters.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.09} Version 2.09
+
+\b Fixed assignment the magnitude of \c{%rep} counter. It is limited
+  to 62 bits now.
+
+\b Fixed NULL dereference if argument of \c{%strlen} resolves
+  to whitespace. For example if nonexistent macro parameter is used.
+
+\b \c{%ifenv}, \c{%elifenv}, \c{%ifnenv}, and \c{%elifnenv} directives
+  introduced.  See \k{ifenv}.
+
+\b Fixed NULL dereference if environment variable is missed.
+
+\b Updates of new AVX v7 Intel instructions.
+
+\b \c{PUSH imm32} is now officially documented.
+
+\b Fix for encoding the LFS, LGS and LSS in 64-bit mode.
+
+\b Fixes for compatibility with OpenWatcom compiler and DOS 8.3 file
+  format limitation.
+
+\b Macros parameters range expansion introduced. See \k{mlmacrange}.
+
+\b Backward compatibility on expanging of local sigle macros restored.
+
+\b 8 bit relocations for \c{elf} and \c{bin} output formats are introduced.
+
+\b Short intersegment jumps are permitted now.
+
+\b An alignment more than 64 bytes are allowed for \c{win32},
+  \c{win64} output formats.
+
+\b \c{SECTALIGN} directive introduced. See \k{sectalign}.
+
+\b \c{nojmp} option introduced in \c{smartalign} package. See
+  \k{pkg_smartalign}.
+
+\b Short aliases \c{win}, \c{elf} and \c{macho} for output formats are
+  introduced.  Each stands for \c{win32}, \c{elf32} and \c{macho32}
+  accordingly.
+
+\b Faster handling of missing directives implemented.
+
+\b Various small improvements in documentation.
+
+\b No hang anymore if unable to open malloc.log file.
+
+\b The environments without vsnprintf function are able to build nasm again.
+
+\b AMD LWP instructions updated.
+
+\b Tighten EA checks. We warn a user if there overflow in EA addressing.
+
+\b Make \c{-Ox} the default optimization level.  For the legacy
+  behavior, specify \c{-O0} explicitly.  See \k{opt-O}.
+
+\b Environment variables read with \c{%!} or tested with \c{%ifenv}
+  can now contain non-identifier characters if surrounded by quotes.
+  See \k{getenv}.
+
+\b Add a new standard macro package \c{%use fp} for floating-point
+  convenience macros.  See \k{pkg_fp}.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.08.02} Version 2.08.02
+
+\b Fix crash under certain circumstances when using the \c{%+} operator.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.08.01} Version 2.08.01
+
+\b Fix the \c{%use} statement, which was broken in 2.08.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.08} Version 2.08
+
+\b A number of enhancements/fixes in macros area.
+
+\b Support for converting strings to tokens.  See \k{deftok}.
+
+\b Fuzzy operand size logic introduced.
+
+\b Fix COFF stack overrun on too long export identifiers.
+
+\b Fix Macho-O alignment bug.
+
+\b Fix crashes with -fwin32 on file with many exports.
+
+\b Fix stack overrun for too long [DEBUG id].
+
+\b Fix incorrect sbyte usage in IMUL (hit only if optimization
+  flag passed).
+
+\b Append ending token for \c{.stabs} records in the ELF output format.
+
+\b New NSIS script which uses ModernUI and MultiUser approach.
+
+\b Visual Studio 2008 NASM integration (rules file).
+
+\b Warn a user if a constant is too long (and as result will be stripped).
+
+\b The obsoleted pre-XOP AMD SSE5 instruction set which was never actualized
+  was removed.
+
+\b Fix stack overrun on too long error file name passed from the command line.
+
+\b Bind symbols to the .text section by default (ie in case if SECTION
+  directive was omitted) in the ELF output format.
+
+\b Fix sync points array index wrapping.
+
+\b A few fixes for FMA4 and XOP instruction templates.
+
+\b Add AMD Lightweight Profiling (LWP) instructions.
+
+\b Fix the offset for \c{%arg} in 64-bit mode.
+
+\b An undefined local macro (\c{%$}) no longer matches a global macro
+  with the same name.
+
+\b Fix NULL dereference on too long local labels.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.07} Version 2.07
+
+\b NASM is now under the 2-clause BSD license.  See \k{legal}.
+
+\b Fix the section type for the \c{.strtab} section in the \c{elf64}
+  output format.
+
+\b Fix the handling of \c{COMMON} directives in the \c{obj} output format.
+
+\b New \c{ith} and \c{srec} output formats; these are variants of the
+  \c{bin} output format which output Intel hex and Motorola S-records,
+  respectively.  See \k{ithfmt} and \k{srecfmt}.
+
+\b \c{rdf2ihx} replaced with an enhanced \c{rdf2bin}, which can output
+  binary, COM, Intel hex or Motorola S-records.
+
+\b The Windows installer now puts the NASM directory first in the
+  \c{PATH} of the "NASM Shell".
+
+\b Revert the early expansion behavior of \c{%+} to pre-2.06 behavior:
+  \c{%+} is only expanded late.
+
+\b Yet another Mach-O alignment fix.
+
+\b Don't delete the list file on errors.  Also, include error and
+  warning information in the list file.
+
+\b Support for 64-bit Mach-O output, see \k{machofmt}.
+
+\b Fix assert failure on certain operations that involve strings with
+  high-bit bytes.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.06} Version 2.06
+
+\b This release is dedicated to the memory of Charles A. Crayne, long
+  time NASM developer as well as moderator of \c{comp.lang.asm.x86} and
+  author of the book \e{Serious Assembler}.  We miss you, Chuck.
+
+\b Support for indirect macro expansion (\c{%[...]}).  See \k{indmacro}.
+
+\b \c{%pop} can now take an argument, see \k{pushpop}.
+
+\b The argument to \c{%use} is no longer macro-expanded.  Use
+  \c{%[...]} if macro expansion is desired.
+
+\b Support for thread-local storage in ELF32 and ELF64.  See \k{elftls}.
+
+\b Fix crash on \c{%ifmacro} without an argument.
+
+\b Correct the arguments to the \c{POPCNT} instruction.
+
+\b Fix section alignment in the Mach-O format.
+
+\b Update AVX support to version 5 of the Intel specification.
+
+\b Fix the handling of accesses to context-local macros from higher
+  levels in the context stack.
+
+\b Treat \c{WAIT} as a prefix rather than as an instruction, thereby
+  allowing constructs like \c{O16 FSAVE} to work correctly.
+
+\b Support for structures with a non-zero base offset. See \k{struc}.
+
+\b Correctly handle preprocessor token concatenation (see \k{concat})
+   involving floating-point numbers.
+
+\b The \c{PINSR} series of instructions have been corrected and
+   rationalized.
+
+\b Removed AMD SSE5, replaced with the new XOP/FMA4/CVT16 (rev 3.03)
+   spec.
+
+\b The ELF backends no longer automatically generate a \c{.comment} section.
+
+\b Add additional "well-known" ELF sections with default attributes.  See
+   \k{elfsect}.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.05.01} Version 2.05.01
+
+\b Fix the \c{-w}/\c{-W} option parsing, which was broken in NASM 2.05.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.05} Version 2.05
+
+\b Fix redundant REX.W prefix on \c{JMP reg64}.
+
+\b Make the behaviour of \c{-O0} match NASM 0.98 legacy behavior.
+  See \k{opt-O}.
+
+\b \c{-w-user} can be used to suppress the output of \c{%warning} directives.
+  See \k{opt-w}.
+
+\b Fix bug where \c{ALIGN} would issue a full alignment datum instead of
+  zero bytes.
+
+\b Fix offsets in list files.
+
+\b Fix \c{%include} inside multi-line macros or loops.
+
+\b Fix error where NASM would generate a spurious warning on valid
+  optimizations of immediate values.
+
+\b Fix arguments to a number of the \c{CVT} SSE instructions.
+
+\b Fix RIP-relative offsets when the instruction carries an immediate.
+
+\b Massive overhaul of the ELF64 backend for spec compliance.
+
+\b Fix the Geode \c{PFRCPV} and \c{PFRSQRTV} instruction.
+
+\b Fix the SSE 4.2 \c{CRC32} instruction.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.04} Version 2.04
+
+\b Sanitize macro handing in the \c{%error} directive.
+
+\b New \c{%warning} directive to issue user-controlled warnings.
+
+\b \c{%error} directives are now deferred to the final assembly phase.
+
+\b New \c{%fatal} directive to immediately terminate assembly.
+
+\b New \c{%strcat} directive to join quoted strings together.
+
+\b New \c{%use} macro directive to support standard macro directives.  See
+  \k{use}.
+
+\b Excess default parameters to \c{%macro} now issues a warning by default.
+  See \k{mlmacro}.
+
+\b Fix \c{%ifn} and \c{%elifn}.
+
+\b Fix nested \c{%else} clauses.
+
+\b Correct the handling of nested \c{%rep}s.
+
+\b New \c{%unmacro} directive to undeclare a multi-line macro.
+  See \k{unmacro}.
+
+\b Builtin macro \c{__PASS__} which expands to the current assembly pass.
+  See \k{pass_macro}.
+
+\b \c{__utf16__} and \c{__utf32__} operators to generate UTF-16 and UTF-32
+  strings.  See \k{unicode}.
+
+\b Fix bug in case-insensitive matching when compiled on platforms that
+  don't use the \c{configure} script.  Of the official release binaries,
+  that only affected the OS/2 binary.
+
+\b Support for x87 packed BCD constants.  See \k{bcdconst}.
+
+\b Correct the \c{LTR} and \c{SLDT} instructions in 64-bit mode.
+
+\b Fix unnecessary REX.W prefix on indirect jumps in 64-bit mode.
+
+\b Add AVX versions of the AES instructions (\c{VAES}...).
+
+\b Fix the 256-bit FMA instructions.
+
+\b Add 256-bit AVX stores per the latest AVX spec.
+
+\b VIA XCRYPT instructions can now be written either with or without
+  \c{REP}, apparently different versions of the VIA spec wrote them
+  differently.
+
+\b Add missing 64-bit \c{MOVNTI} instruction.
+
+\b Fix the operand size of \c{VMREAD} and \c{VMWRITE}.
+
+\b Numerous bug fixes, especially to the AES, AVX and VTX instructions.
+
+\b The optimizer now always runs until it converges.  It also runs even
+  when disabled, but doesn't optimize.  This allows most forward references
+  to be resolved properly.
+
+\b \c{%push} no longer needs a context identifier; omitting the context
+  identifier results in an anonymous context.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.03.01} Version 2.03.01
+
+\b Fix buffer overflow in the listing module.
+
+\b Fix the handling of hexadecimal escape codes in `...` strings.
+
+\b The Postscript/PDF documentation has been reformatted.
+
+\b The \c{-F} option now implies \c{-g}.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.03} Version 2.03
+
+\b Add support for Intel AVX, CLMUL and FMA instructions,
+including YMM registers.
+
+\b \c{dy}, \c{resy} and \c{yword} for 32-byte operands.
+
+\b Fix some SSE5 instructions.
+
+\b Intel \c{INVEPT}, \c{INVVPID} and \c{MOVBE} instructions.
+
+\b Fix checking for critical expressions when the optimizer is enabled.
+
+\b Support the DWARF debugging format for ELF targets.
+
+\b Fix optimizations of signed bytes.
+
+\b Fix operation on bigendian machines.
+
+\b Fix buffer overflow in the preprocessor.
+
+\b \c{SAFESEH} support for Win32, \c{IMAGEREL} for Win64 (SEH).
+
+\b \c{%?} and \c{%??} to refer to the name of a macro itself.  In particular,
+\c{%idefine keyword $%?} can be used to make a keyword "disappear".
+
+\b New options for dependency generation: \c{-MD}, \c{-MF},
+\c{-MP}, \c{-MT}, \c{-MQ}.
+
+\b New preprocessor directives \c{%pathsearch} and \c{%depend}; INCBIN
+reimplemented as a macro.
+
+\b \c{%include} now resolves macros in a sane manner.
+
+\b \c{%substr} can now be used to get other than one-character substrings.
+
+\b New type of character/string constants, using backquotes (\c{`...`}),
+which support C-style escape sequences.
+
+\b \c{%defstr} and \c{%idefstr} to stringize macro definitions before
+creation.
+
+\b Fix forward references used in \c{EQU} statements.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.02} Version 2.02
+
+\b Additional fixes for MMX operands with explicit \c{qword}, as well as
+  (hopefully) SSE operands with \c{oword}.
+
+\b Fix handling of truncated strings with \c{DO}.
+
+\b Fix segfaults due to memory overwrites when floating-point constants
+  were used.
+
+\b Fix segfaults due to missing include files.
+
+\b Fix OpenWatcom Makefiles for DOS and OS/2.
+
+\b Add autogenerated instruction list back into the documentation.
+
+\b ELF: Fix segfault when generating stabs, and no symbols have been
+  defined.
+
+\b ELF: Experimental support for DWARF debugging information.
+
+\b New compile date and time standard macros.
+
+\b \c{%ifnum} now returns true for negative numbers.
+
+\b New \c{%iftoken} test for a single token.
+
+\b New \c{%ifempty} test for empty expansion.
+
+\b Add support for the \c{XSAVE} instruction group.
+
+\b Makefile for Netware/gcc.
+
+\b Fix issue with some warnings getting emitted way too many times.
+
+\b Autogenerated instruction list added to the documentation.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.01} Version 2.01
+
+\b Fix the handling of MMX registers with explicit \c{qword} tags on
+  memory (broken in 2.00 due to 64-bit changes.)
+
+\b Fix the PREFETCH instructions.
+
+\b Fix the documentation.
+
+\b Fix debugging info when using \c{-f elf}
+(backwards compatibility alias for \c{-f elf32}).
+
+\b Man pages for rdoff tools (from the Debian project.)
+
+\b ELF: handle large numbers of sections.
+
+\b Fix corrupt output when the optimizer runs out of passes.
+
+
+\S{cl-2.00} Version 2.00
+
+\b Added c99 data-type compliance.
+
+\b Added general x86-64 support.
+
+\b Added win64 (x86-64 COFF) output format.
+
+\b Added \c{__BITS__} standard macro.
+
+\b Renamed the \c{elf} output format to \c{elf32} for clarity.
+
+\b Added \c{elf64} and \c{macho} (MacOS X) output formats.
+
+\b Added Numeric constants in \c{dq} directive.
+
+\b Added \c{oword}, \c{do} and \c{reso} pseudo operands.
+
+\b Allow underscores in numbers.
+
+\b Added 8-, 16- and 128-bit floating-point formats.
+
+\b Added binary, octal and hexadecimal floating-point.
+
+\b Correct the generation of floating-point constants.
+
+\b Added floating-point option control.
+
+\b Added Infinity and NaN floating point support.
+
+\b Added ELF Symbol Visibility support.
+
+\b Added setting OSABI value in ELF header directive.
+
+\b Added Generate Makefile Dependencies option.
+
+\b Added Unlimited Optimization Passes option.
+
+\b Added \c{%IFN} and \c{%ELIFN} support.
+
+\b Added Logical Negation Operator.
+
+\b Enhanced Stack Relative Preprocessor Directives.
+
+\b Enhanced ELF Debug Formats.
+
+\b Enhanced Send Errors to a File option.
+
+\b Added SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE5 support.
+
+\b Added a large number of additional instructions.
+
+\b Significant performance improvements.
+
+\b \c{-w+warning} and \c{-w-warning} can now be written as -Wwarning and
+ -Wno-warning, respectively.  See \k{opt-w}.
+
+\b Add \c{-w+error} to treat warnings as errors.  See \k{opt-w}.
+
+\b Add \c{-w+all} and \c{-w-all} to enable or disable all suppressible
+ warnings.  See \k{opt-w}.
+
+
+\H{cl-0.98.xx} NASM 0.98 Series
+
+The 0.98 series was the production versions of NASM from 1999 to 2007.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.39} Version 0.98.39
+
+\b fix buffer overflow
+
+\b fix outas86's \c{.bss} handling
+
+\b "make spotless" no longer deletes config.h.in.
+
+\b \c{%(el)if(n)idn} insensitivity to string quotes difference (#809300).
+
+\b (nasm.c)\c{__OUTPUT_FORMAT__} changed to string value instead of symbol.
+
+\S{cl-0.98.38} Version 0.98.38
+
+
+\b Add Makefile for 16-bit DOS binaries under OpenWatcom, and modify
+  \c{mkdep.pl} to be able to generate completely pathless dependencies, as
+  required by OpenWatcom wmake (it supports path searches, but not
+  explicit paths.)
+
+\b Fix the \c{STR} instruction.
+
+\b Fix the ELF output format, which was broken under certain
+  circumstances due to the addition of stabs support.
+
+\b Quick-fix Borland format debug-info for \c{-f obj}
+
+\b Fix for \c{%rep} with no arguments (#560568)
+
+\b Fix concatenation of preprocessor function call (#794686)
+
+\b Fix long label causes coredump (#677841)
+
+\b Use autoheader as well as autoconf to keep configure from generating
+  ridiculously long command lines.
+
+\b Make sure that all of the formats which support debugging output
+  actually will suppress debugging output when \c{-g} not specified.
+
+\S{cl-0.98.37} Version 0.98.37
+
+
+\b Paths given in \c{-I} switch searched for \c{incbin}-ed as
+  well as \c{%include}-ed files.
+
+\b Added stabs debugging for the ELF output format, patch from
+  Martin Wawro.
+
+\b Fix \c{output/outbin.c} to allow origin > 80000000h.
+
+\b Make \c{-U} switch work.
+
+\b Fix the use of relative offsets with explicit prefixes, e.g.
+\c{a32 loop foo}.
+
+\b Remove \c{backslash()}.
+
+\b Fix the \c{SMSW} and \c{SLDT} instructions.
+
+\b \c{-O2} and \c{-O3} are no longer aliases for \c{-O10} and \c{-O15}.
+If you mean the latter, please say so! :)
+
+\S{cl-0.98.36} Version 0.98.36
+
+
+\b Update rdoff - librarian/archiver - common rec - docs!
+
+\b Fix signed/unsigned problems.
+
+\b Fix \c{JMP FAR label} and \c{CALL FAR label}.
+
+\b Add new multisection support - map files - fix align bug
+
+\b Fix sysexit, movhps/movlps reg,reg bugs in insns.dat
+
+\b \c{Q} or \c{O} suffixes indicate octal
+
+\b Support Prescott new instructions (PNI).
+
+\b Cyrix \c{XSTORE} instruction.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.35} Version 0.98.35
+
+\b Fix build failure on 16-bit DOS (Makefile.bc3 workaround for compiler bug.)
+
+\b Fix dependencies and compiler warnings.
+
+\b Add "const" in a number of places.
+
+\b Add -X option to specify error reporting format (use -Xvc to
+  integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio.)
+
+\b Minor changes for code legibility.
+
+\b Drop use of tmpnam() in rdoff (security fix.)
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.34} Version 0.98.34
+
+\b Correct additional address-size vs. operand-size confusions.
+
+\b Generate dependencies for all Makefiles automatically.
+
+\b Add support for unimplemented (but theoretically available)
+  registers such as tr0 and cr5.  Segment registers 6 and 7 are called
+  segr6 and segr7 for the operations which they can be represented.
+
+\b Correct some disassembler bugs related to redundant address-size prefixes.
+  Some work still remains in this area.
+
+\b Correctly generate an error for things like "SEG eax".
+
+\b Add the JMPE instruction, enabled by "CPU IA64".
+
+\b Correct compilation on newer gcc/glibc platforms.
+
+\b Issue an error on things like "jmp far eax".
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.33} Version 0.98.33
+
+\b New __NASM_PATCHLEVEL__ and __NASM_VERSION_ID__ standard macros to
+  round out the version-query macros.  version.pl now understands
+  X.YYplWW or X.YY.ZZplWW as a version number, equivalent to
+  X.YY.ZZ.WW (or X.YY.0.WW, as appropriate).
+
+\b New keyword "strict" to disable the optimization of specific
+  operands.
+
+\b Fix the handing of size overrides with JMP instructions
+  (instructions such as "jmp dword foo".)
+
+\b Fix the handling of "ABSOLUTE label", where "label" points into a
+  relocatable segment.
+
+\b Fix OBJ output format with lots of externs.
+
+\b More documentation updates.
+
+\b Add -Ov option to get verbose information about optimizations.
+
+\b Undo a braindead change which broke \c{%elif} directives.
+
+\b Makefile updates.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.32} Version 0.98.32
+
+\b Fix NASM crashing when \c{%macro} directives were left unterminated.
+
+\b Lots of documentation updates.
+
+\b Complete rewrite of the PostScript/PDF documentation generator.
+
+\b The MS Visual C++ Makefile was updated and corrected.
+
+\b Recognize .rodata as a standard section name in ELF.
+
+\b Fix some obsolete Perl4-isms in Perl scripts.
+
+\b Fix configure.in to work with autoconf 2.5x.
+
+\b Fix a couple of "make cleaner" misses.
+
+\b Make the normal "./configure && make" work with Cygwin.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.31} Version 0.98.31
+
+\b Correctly build in a separate object directory again.
+
+\b Derive all references to the version number from the version file.
+
+\b New standard macros __NASM_SUBMINOR__ and __NASM_VER__ macros.
+
+\b Lots of Makefile updates and bug fixes.
+
+\b New \c{%ifmacro} directive to test for multiline macros.
+
+\b Documentation updates.
+
+\b Fixes for 16-bit OBJ format output.
+
+\b Changed the NASM environment variable to NASMENV.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.30} Version 0.98.30
+
+\b Changed doc files a lot: completely removed old READMExx and
+  Wishlist files, incorporating all information in CHANGES and TODO.
+
+\b I waited a long time to rename zoutieee.c to (original) outieee.c
+
+\b moved all output modules to output/ subdirectory.
+
+\b Added 'make strip' target to strip debug info from nasm & ndisasm.
+
+\b Added INSTALL file with installation instructions.
+
+\b Added -v option description to nasm man.
+
+\b Added dist makefile target to produce source distributions.
+
+\b 16-bit support for ELF output format (GNU extension, but useful.)
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.28} Version 0.98.28
+
+\b Fastcooked this for Debian's Woody release:
+Frank applied the INCBIN bug patch to 0.98.25alt and called
+it 0.98.28 to not confuse poor little apt-get.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.26} Version 0.98.26
+
+\b Reorganised files even better from 0.98.25alt
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.25alt} Version 0.98.25alt
+
+\b Prettified the source tree. Moved files to more reasonable places.
+
+\b Added findleak.pl script to misc/ directory.
+
+\b Attempted to fix doc.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.25} Version 0.98.25
+
+\b Line continuation character \c{\\}.
+
+\b Docs inadvertantly reverted - "dos packaging".
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.24p1} Version 0.98.24p1
+
+\b FIXME: Someone, document this please.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.24} Version 0.98.24
+
+\b Documentation - Ndisasm doc added to Nasm.doc.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.23} Version 0.98.23
+
+\b Attempted to remove rdoff version1
+
+\b Lino Mastrodomenico's patches to preproc.c (%$$ bug?).
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.22} Version 0.98.22
+
+\b Update rdoff2 - attempt to remove v1.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.21} Version 0.98.21
+
+\b Optimization fixes.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.20} Version 0.98.20
+
+\b Optimization fixes.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.19} Version 0.98.19
+
+\b H. J. Lu's patch back out.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.18} Version 0.98.18
+
+\b Added ".rdata" to "-f win32".
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.17} Version 0.98.17
+
+\b H. J. Lu's "bogus elf" patch. (Red Hat problem?)
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.16} Version 0.98.16
+
+\b Fix whitespace before "[section ..." bug.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.15} Version 0.98.15
+
+\b Rdoff changes (?).
+
+\b Fix fixes to memory leaks.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.14} Version 0.98.14
+
+\b Fix memory leaks.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.13} Version 0.98.13
+
+\b There was no 0.98.13
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.12} Version 0.98.12
+
+\b Update optimization (new function of "-O1")
+
+\b Changes to test/bintest.asm (?).
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.11} Version 0.98.11
+
+\b Optimization changes.
+
+\b Ndisasm fixed.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.10} Version 0.98.10
+
+\b There was no 0.98.10
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.09} Version 0.98.09
+
+\b Add multiple sections support to "-f bin".
+
+\b Changed GLOBAL_TEMP_BASE in outelf.c from 6 to 15.
+
+\b Add "-v" as an alias to the "-r" switch.
+
+\b Remove "#ifdef" from Tasm compatibility options.
+
+\b Remove redundant size-overrides on "mov ds, ex", etc.
+
+\b Fixes to SSE2, other insns.dat (?).
+
+\b Enable uppercase "I" and "P" switches.
+
+\b Case insinsitive "seg" and "wrt".
+
+\b Update install.sh (?).
+
+\b Allocate tokens in blocks.
+
+\b Improve "invalid effective address" messages.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.08} Version 0.98.08
+
+\b Add "\c{%strlen}" and "\c{%substr}" macro operators
+
+\b Fixed broken c16.mac.
+
+\b Unterminated string error reported.
+
+\b Fixed bugs as per 0.98bf
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.09b with John Coffman patches released 28-Oct-2001} Version 0.98.09b with John Coffman patches released 28-Oct-2001
+
+Changes from 0.98.07 release to 98.09b as of 28-Oct-2001
+
+\b More closely compatible with 0.98 when -O0 is implied
+or specified.  Not strictly identical, since backward
+branches in range of short offsets are recognized, and signed
+byte values with no explicit size specification will be
+assembled as a single byte.
+
+\b More forgiving with the PUSH instruction.  0.98 requires
+a size to be specified always.  0.98.09b will imply the size
+from the current BITS setting (16 or 32).
+
+\b Changed definition of the optimization flag:
+
+\c    -O0     strict two-pass assembly, JMP and Jcc are
+\c            handled more like 0.98, except that back-
+\c            ward JMPs are short, if possible.
+\c
+\c    -O1     strict two-pass assembly, but forward
+\c            branches are assembled with code guaranteed
+\c            to reach; may produce larger code than
+\c            -O0, but will produce successful assembly
+\c            more often if branch offset sizes are not
+\c            specified.
+\c
+\c    -O2     multi-pass optimization, minimize branch
+\c            offsets; also will minimize signed immed-
+\c            iate bytes, overriding size specification.
+\c
+\c    -O3     like -O2, but more passes taken, if needed
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.07 released 01/28/01} Version 0.98.07 released 01/28/01
+
+\b      Added Stepane Denis' SSE2 instructions to a *working*
+        version of the code - some earlier versions were based on
+        broken code - sorry 'bout that. version "0.98.07"
+
+\b       Cosmetic modifications to nasm.c, nasm.h,
+        AUTHORS, MODIFIED
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.06f released 01/18/01} Version 0.98.06f released 01/18/01
+
+
+\b Add "metalbrain"s jecxz bug fix in insns.dat
+
+\b Alter nasmdoc.src to match - version "0.98.06f"
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.06e released 01/09/01} Version 0.98.06e released 01/09/01
+
+
+\b       Removed the "outforms.h" file - it appears to be
+        someone's old backup of "outform.h". version "0.98.06e"
+
+\b fbk - finally added the fix for the "multiple %includes bug",
+        known since 7/27/99 - reported originally (?) and sent to
+        us by Austin Lunnen - he reports that John Fine had a fix
+        within the day. Here it is...
+
+\b Nelson Rush resigns from the group. Big thanks to Nelson for
+  his leadership and enthusiasm in getting these changes
+  incorporated into Nasm!
+
+\b fbk - [list +], [list -] directives - ineptly implemented, should
+        be re-written or removed, perhaps.
+
+\b Brian Raiter / fbk - "elfso bug" fix - applied to aoutb format
+                       as well - testing might be desirable...
+
+\b James Seter - -postfix, -prefix command line switches.
+
+\b Yuri Zaporozhets - rdoff utility changes.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p1} Version 0.98p1
+
+\b GAS-like palign (Panos Minos)
+
+\b FIXME: Someone, fill this in with details
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98bf (bug-fixed)} Version 0.98bf (bug-fixed)
+
+\b Fixed - elf and aoutb bug - shared libraries
+        - multiple "%include" bug in "-f obj"
+        - jcxz, jecxz bug
+        - unrecognized option bug in ndisasm
+
+\S{cl-0.98.03 with John Coffman's changes released 27-Jul-2000} Version 0.98.03 with John Coffman's changes released 27-Jul-2000
+
+\b Added signed byte optimizations for the 0x81/0x83 class
+of instructions: ADC, ADD, AND, CMP, OR, SBB, SUB, XOR:
+when used as 'ADD reg16,imm' or 'ADD reg32,imm.'  Also
+optimization of signed byte form of 'PUSH imm' and 'IMUL
+reg,imm'/'IMUL reg,reg,imm.'  No size specification is needed.
+
+\b Added multi-pass JMP and Jcc offset optimization.  Offsets
+on forward references will preferentially use the short form,
+without the need to code a specific size (short or near) for
+the branch.  Added instructions for 'Jcc label' to use the
+form 'Jnotcc $+3/JMP label', in cases where a short offset
+is out of bounds.  If compiling for a 386 or higher CPU, then
+the 386 form of Jcc will be used instead.
+
+\> This feature is controlled by a new command-line switch: "O",
+(upper case letter O).  "-O0" reverts the assembler to no
+extra optimization passes, "-O1" allows up to 5 extra passes,
+and "-O2"(default), allows up to 10 extra optimization passes.
+
+\b Added a new directive:  'cpu XXX', where XXX is any of:
+8086, 186, 286, 386, 486, 586, pentium, 686, PPro, P2, P3 or
+Katmai.  All are case insensitive.  All instructions will
+be selected only if they apply to the selected cpu or lower.
+Corrected a couple of bugs in cpu-dependence in 'insns.dat'.
+
+\b Added to 'standard.mac', the "use16" and "use32" forms of
+the "bits 16/32" directive. This is nothing new, just conforms
+to a lot of other assemblers. (minor)
+
+\b Changed label allocation from 320/32 (10000 labels @ 200K+)
+to 32/37 (1000 labels); makes running under DOS much easier.
+Since additional label space is allocated dynamically, this
+should have no effect on large programs with lots of labels.
+The 37 is a prime, believed to be better for hashing. (minor)
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98.03} Version 0.98.03
+
+"Integrated patchfile 0.98-0.98.01.  I call this version 0.98.03 for
+historical reasons: 0.98.02 was trashed." --John Coffman
+<johninsd@san.rr.com>, 27-Jul-2000
+
+\b Kendall Bennett's SciTech MGL changes
+
+\b Note that you must define "TASM_COMPAT" at compile-time
+to get the Tasm Ideal Mode compatibility.
+
+\b All changes can be compiled in and out using the TASM_COMPAT macros,
+and when compiled without TASM_COMPAT defined we get the exact same
+binary as the unmodified 0.98 sources.
+
+\b standard.mac, macros.c: Added macros to ignore TASM directives before
+first include
+
+\b nasm.h: Added extern declaration for tasm_compatible_mode
+
+\b nasm.c: Added global variable tasm_compatible_mode
+
+\b Added command line switch for TASM compatible mode (-t)
+
+\b Changed version command line to reflect when compiled with TASM additions
+
+\b Added response file processing to allow all arguments on a single
+line (response file is @resp rather than -@resp for NASM format).
+
+\b labels.c: Changes islocal() macro to support TASM style @@local labels.
+
+\b Added islocalchar() macro to support TASM style @@local labels.
+
+\b parser.c: Added support for TASM style memory references (ie: mov
+[DWORD eax],10 rather than the NASM style mov DWORD [eax],10).
+
+\b preproc.c: Added new directives, \c{%arg}, \c{%local}, \c{%stacksize} to directives
+table
+
+\b Added support for TASM style directives without a leading % symbol.
+
+\b Integrated a block of changes from Andrew Zabolotny <bit@eltech.ru>:
+
+\b A new keyword \c{%xdefine} and its case-insensitive counterpart \c{%ixdefine}.
+They work almost the same way as \c{%define} and \c{%idefine} but expand
+the definition immediately, not on the invocation. Something like a cross
+between \c{%define} and \c{%assign}. The "x" suffix stands for "eXpand", so
+"xdefine" can be deciphered as "expand-and-define". Thus you can do
+things like this:
+
+\c      %assign ofs     0
+\c
+\c      %macro  arg     1
+\c              %xdefine %1 dword [esp+ofs]
+\c              %assign ofs ofs+4
+\c      %endmacro
+
+\b Changed the place where the expansion of %$name macros are expanded.
+Now they are converted into ..@ctxnum.name form when detokenizing, so
+there are no quirks as before when using %$name arguments to macros,
+in macros etc. For example:
+
+\c      %macro  abc     1
+\c              %define %1 hello
+\c      %endm
+\c
+\c      abc     %$here
+\c      %$here
+
+\>    Now last line will be expanded into "hello" as expected. This also allows
+    for lots of goodies, a good example are extended "proc" macros included
+    in this archive.
+
+\b Added a check for "cstk" in smacro_defined() before calling get_ctx() -
+    this allows for things like:
+
+\c      %ifdef %$abc
+\c      %endif
+
+\>    to work without warnings even in no context.
+
+\b Added a check for "cstk" in %if*ctx and %elif*ctx directives -
+    this allows to use \c{%ifctx} without excessive warnings. If there is
+    no active context, \c{%ifctx} goes through "false" branch.
+
+\b Removed "user error: " prefix with \c{%error} directive: it just clobbers the
+    output and has absolutely no functionality. Besides, this allows to write
+    macros that does not differ from built-in functions in any way.
+
+\b Added expansion of string that is output by \c{%error} directive. Now you
+    can do things like:
+
+\c      %define hello(x) Hello, x!
+\c
+\c      %define %$name andy
+\c      %error "hello(%$name)"
+
+\> Same happened with \c{%include} directive.
+
+\b Now all directives that expect an identifier will try to expand and
+    concatenate everything without whitespaces in between before usage.
+    For example, with "unfixed" nasm the commands
+
+\c      %define %$abc hello
+\c      %define __%$abc goodbye
+\c      __%$abc
+
+\>    would produce "incorrect" output: last line will expand to
+
+\c      hello goodbyehello
+
+\>    Not quite what you expected, eh? :-) The answer is that preprocessor
+    treats the \c{%define} construct as if it would be
+
+\c      %define __ %$abc goodbye
+
+\>    (note the white space between __ and %$abc). After my "fix" it
+    will "correctly" expand into
+
+\c      goodbye
+
+\>    as expected. Note that I use quotes around words "correct", "incorrect"
+    etc because this is rather a feature not a bug; however current behaviour
+    is more logical (and allows more advanced macro usage :-).
+
+    Same change was applied to:
+        \c{%push},\c{%macro},\c{%imacro},\c{%define},\c{%idefine},\c{%xdefine},\c{%ixdefine},
+        \c{%assign},\c{%iassign},\c{%undef}
+
+\b A new directive [WARNING {+|-}warning-id] have been added. It works only
+    if the assembly phase is enabled (i.e. it doesn't work with nasm -e).
+
+\b A new warning type: macro-selfref. By default this warning is disabled;
+    when enabled NASM warns when a macro self-references itself; for example
+    the following source:
+
+\c        [WARNING macro-selfref]
+\c
+\c        %macro          push    1-*
+\c                %rep    %0
+\c                        push    %1
+\c                        %rotate 1
+\c                %endrep
+\c        %endmacro
+\c
+\c                        push    eax,ebx,ecx
+
+\>  will produce a warning, but if we remove the first line we won't see it
+    anymore (which is The Right Thing To Do {tm} IMHO since C preprocessor
+    eats such constructs without warnings at all).
+
+\b Added a "error" routine to preprocessor which always will set ERR_PASS1
+    bit in severity_code. This removes annoying repeated errors on first
+    and second passes from preprocessor.
+
+\b Added the %+ operator in single-line macros for concatenating two
+    identifiers. Usage example:
+
+\c        %define _myfunc _otherfunc
+\c        %define cextern(x) _ %+ x
+\c        cextern (myfunc)
+
+\>    After first expansion, third line will become "_myfunc". After this
+    expansion is performed again so it becomes "_otherunc".
+
+\b Now if preprocessor is in a non-emitting state, no warning or error
+    will be emitted. Example:
+
+\c        %if 1
+\c                mov     eax,ebx
+\c        %else
+\c                put anything you want between these two brackets,
+\c                even macro-parameter references %1 or local
+\c                labels %$zz or macro-local labels %%zz - no
+\c                warning will be emitted.
+\c        %endif
+
+\b Context-local variables on expansion as a last resort are looked up
+    in outer contexts. For example, the following piece:
+
+\c        %push   outer
+\c        %define %$a [esp]
+\c
+\c                %push   inner
+\c                %$a
+\c                %pop
+\c        %pop
+
+\>    will expand correctly the fourth line to [esp]; if we'll define another
+    %$a inside the "inner" context, it will take precedence over outer
+    definition. However, this modification has been applied only to
+    expand_smacro and not to smacro_define: as a consequence expansion
+    looks in outer contexts, but \c{%ifdef} won't look in outer contexts.
+
+\>    This behaviour is needed because we don't want nested contexts to
+    act on already defined local macros. Example:
+
+\c        %define %$arg1  [esp+4]
+\c        test    eax,eax
+\c        if      nz
+\c                mov     eax,%$arg1
+\c        endif
+
+\>    In this example the "if" mmacro enters into the "if" context, so %$arg1
+    is not valid anymore inside "if". Of course it could be worked around
+    by using explicitely %$$arg1 but this is ugly IMHO.
+
+\b Fixed memory leak in \c{%undef}. The origline wasn't freed before
+    exiting on success.
+
+\b Fixed trap in preprocessor when line expanded to empty set of tokens.
+    This happens, for example, in the following case:
+
+\c        #define SOMETHING
+\c        SOMETHING
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98} Version 0.98
+
+All changes since NASM 0.98p3 have been produced by H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>.
+
+\b The documentation comment delimiter is \# not #.
+
+\b Allow EQU definitions to refer to external labels; reported by
+  Pedro Gimeno.
+
+\b Re-enable support for RDOFF v1; reported by Pedro Gimeno.
+
+\b Updated License file per OK from Simon and Julian.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p9} Version 0.98p9
+
+\b Update documentation (although the instruction set reference will
+  have to wait; I don't want to hold up the 0.98 release for it.)
+
+\b Verified that the NASM implementation of the PEXTRW and PMOVMSKB
+  instructions is correct.  The encoding differs from what the Intel
+  manuals document, but the Pentium III behaviour matches NASM, not
+  the Intel manuals.
+
+\b Fix handling of implicit sizes in PSHUFW and PINSRW, reported by
+  Stefan Hoffmeister.
+
+\b Resurrect the -s option, which was removed when changing the
+  diagnostic output to stdout.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p8} Version 0.98p8
+
+\b Fix for "DB" when NASM is running on a bigendian machine.
+
+\b Invoke insns.pl once for each output script, making Makefile.in
+  legal for "make -j".
+
+\b Improve the Unix configure-based makefiles to make package
+  creation easier.
+
+\b Included an RPM .spec file for building RPM (RedHat Package Manager)
+  packages on Linux or Unix systems.
+
+\b Fix Makefile dependency problems.
+
+\b Change src/rdsrc.pl to include sectioning information in info
+  output; required for install-info to work.
+
+\b Updated the RDOFF distribution to version 2 from Jules; minor
+  massaging to make it compile in my environment.
+
+\b Split doc files that can be built by anyone with a Perl interpreter off
+  into a separate archive.
+
+\b "Dress rehearsal" release!
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p7} Version 0.98p7
+
+\b Fixed opcodes with a third byte-sized immediate argument to not
+  complain if given "byte" on the immediate.
+
+\b Allow \c{%undef} to remove single-line macros with arguments.  This
+  matches the behaviour of #undef in the C preprocessor.
+
+\b Allow -d, -u, -i and -p to be specified as -D, -U, -I and -P for
+  compatibility with most C compilers and preprocessors.  This allows
+  Makefile options to be shared between cc and nasm, for example.
+
+\b Minor cleanups.
+
+\b Went through the list of Katmai instructions and hopefully fixed the
+  (rather few) mistakes in it.
+
+\b (Hopefully) fixed a number of disassembler bugs related to ambiguous
+  instructions (disambiguated by -p) and SSE instructions with REP.
+
+\b Fix for bug reported by Mark Junger: "call dword 0x12345678" should
+  work and may add an OSP (affected CALL, JMP, Jcc).
+
+\b Fix for environments when "stderr" isn't a compile-time constant.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p6} Version 0.98p6
+
+
+\b Took officially over coordination of the 0.98 release; so drop
+  the p3.x notation. Skipped p4 and p5 to avoid confusion with John
+  Fine's J4 and J5 releases.
+
+\b Update the documentation; however, it still doesn't include
+  documentation for the various new instructions.  I somehow wonder if
+  it makes sense to have an instruction set reference in the assembler
+  manual when Intel et al have PDF versions of their manuals online.
+
+\b Recognize "idt" or "centaur" for the -p option to ndisasm.
+
+\b Changed error messages back to stderr where they belong, but add an
+  -E option to redirect them elsewhere (the DOS shell cannot redirect
+  stderr.)
+
+\b -M option to generate Makefile dependencies (based on code from Alex
+  Verstak.)
+
+\b \c{%undef} preprocessor directive, and -u option, that undefines a
+  single-line macro.
+
+\b OS/2 Makefile (Mkfiles/Makefile.os2) for Borland under OS/2; from
+  Chuck Crayne.
+
+\b Various minor bugfixes (reported by):
+  - Dangling \c{%s} in preproc.c (Martin Junker)
+
+\b THERE ARE KNOWN BUGS IN SSE AND THE OTHER KATMAI INSTRUCTIONS.  I am
+  on a trip and didn't bring the Katmai instruction reference, so I
+  can't work on them right now.
+
+\b Updated the License file per agreement with Simon and Jules to
+  include a GPL distribution clause.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p3.7} Version 0.98p3.7
+
+\b (Hopefully) fixed the canned Makefiles to include the outrdf2 and
+  zoutieee modules.
+
+\b Renamed changes.asm to changed.asm.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p3.6} Version 0.98p3.6
+
+\b Fixed a bunch of instructions that were added in 0.98p3.5 which had
+  memory operands, and the address-size prefix was missing from the
+  instruction pattern.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p3.5} Version 0.98p3.5
+
+\b Merged in changes from John S. Fine's 0.98-J5 release.  John's based
+  0.98-J5 on my 0.98p3.3 release; this merges the changes.
+
+\b Expanded the instructions flag field to a long so we can fit more
+  flags; mark SSE (KNI) and AMD or Katmai-specific instructions as
+  such.
+
+\b Fix the "PRIV" flag on a bunch of instructions, and create new
+  "PROT" flag for protected-mode-only instructions (orthogonal to if
+  the instruction is privileged!) and new "SMM" flag for SMM-only
+  instructions.
+
+\b Added AMD-only SYSCALL and SYSRET instructions.
+
+\b Make SSE actually work, and add new Katmai MMX instructions.
+
+\b Added a -p (preferred vendor) option to ndisasm so that it can
+  distinguish e.g. Cyrix opcodes also used in SSE.  For example:
+
+\c      ndisasm -p cyrix aliased.bin
+\c      00000000  670F514310        paddsiw mm0,[ebx+0x10]
+\c      00000005  670F514320        paddsiw mm0,[ebx+0x20]
+\c      ndisasm -p intel aliased.bin
+\c      00000000  670F514310        sqrtps xmm0,[ebx+0x10]
+\c      00000005  670F514320        sqrtps xmm0,[ebx+0x20]
+
+\b Added a bunch of Cyrix-specific instructions.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p3.4} Version 0.98p3.4
+
+\b Made at least an attempt to modify all the additional Makefiles (in
+  the Mkfiles directory).  I can't test it, but this was the best I
+  could do.
+
+\b DOS DJGPP+"Opus Make" Makefile from John S. Fine.
+
+\b changes.asm changes from John S. Fine.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p3.3} Version 0.98p3.3
+
+\b Patch from Conan Brink to allow nesting of \c{%rep} directives.
+
+\b If we're going to allow INT01 as an alias for INT1/ICEBP (one of
+  Jules 0.98p3 changes), then we should allow INT03 as an alias for INT3
+  as well.
+
+\b Updated changes.asm to include the latest changes.
+
+\b Tried to clean up the <CR>s that had snuck in from a DOS/Windows
+  environment into my Unix environment, and try to make sure than
+  DOS/Windows users get them back.
+
+\b We would silently generate broken tools if insns.dat wasn't sorted
+  properly.  Change insns.pl so that the order doesn't matter.
+
+\b Fix bug in insns.pl (introduced by me) which would cause conditional
+  instructions to have an extra "cc" in disassembly, e.g. "jnz"
+  disassembled as "jccnz".
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p3.2} Version 0.98p3.2
+
+\b Merged in John S. Fine's changes from his 0.98-J4 prerelease; see
+  http://www.csoft.net/cz/johnfine/
+
+\b Changed previous "spotless" Makefile target (appropriate for distribution)
+  to "distclean", and added "cleaner" target which is same as "clean"
+  except deletes files generated by Perl scripts; "spotless" is union.
+
+\b Removed BASIC programs from distribution.  Get a Perl interpreter
+  instead (see below.)
+
+\b Calling this "pre-release 3.2" rather than "p3-hpa2" because of
+  John's contributions.
+
+\b Actually link in the IEEE output format (zoutieee.c); fix a bunch of
+  compiler warnings in that file.  Note I don't know what IEEE output
+  is supposed to look like, so these changes were made "blind".
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p3-hpa} Version 0.98p3-hpa
+
+\b Merged nasm098p3.zip with nasm-0.97.tar.gz to create a fully
+  buildable version for Unix systems (Makefile.in updates, etc.)
+
+\b Changed insns.pl to create the instruction tables in nasm.h and
+  names.c, so that a new instruction can be added by adding it *only*
+  to insns.dat.
+
+\b Added the following new instructions: SYSENTER, SYSEXIT, FXSAVE,
+  FXRSTOR, UD1, UD2 (the latter two are two opcodes that Intel
+  guarantee will never be used; one of them is documented as UD2 in
+  Intel documentation, the other one just as "Undefined Opcode" --
+  calling it UD1 seemed to make sense.)
+
+\b MAX_SYMBOL was defined to be 9, but LOADALL286 and LOADALL386 are 10
+  characters long.  Now MAX_SYMBOL is derived from insns.dat.
+
+\b A note on the BASIC programs included: forget them.  insns.bas is
+  already out of date.  Get yourself a Perl interpreter for your
+  platform of choice at
+  \W{http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html}{http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html}.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p3} Version 0.98 pre-release 3
+
+\b added response file support, improved command line handling, new layout
+help screen
+
+\b fixed limit checking bug, 'OUT byte nn, reg' bug, and a couple of rdoff
+related bugs, updated Wishlist; 0.98 Prerelease 3.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p2} Version 0.98 pre-release 2
+
+\b fixed bug in outcoff.c to do with truncating section names longer
+than 8 characters, referencing beyond end of string; 0.98 pre-release 2
+
+
+\S{cl-0.98p1} Version 0.98 pre-release 1
+
+\b Fixed a bug whereby STRUC didn't work at all in RDF.
+
+\b Fixed a problem with group specification in PUBDEFs in OBJ.
+
+\b Improved ease of adding new output formats. Contribution due to
+Fox Cutter.
+
+\b Fixed a bug in relocations in the `bin' format: was showing up when
+a relocatable reference crossed an 8192-byte boundary in any output
+section.
+
+\b Fixed a bug in local labels: local-label lookups were inconsistent
+between passes one and two if an EQU occurred between the definition
+of a global label and the subsequent use of a local label local to
+that global.
+
+\b Fixed a seg-fault in the preprocessor (again) which happened when
+you use a blank line as the first line of a multi-line macro
+definition and then defined a label on the same line as a call to
+that macro.
+
+\b Fixed a stale-pointer bug in the handling of the NASM environment
+variable. Thanks to Thomas McWilliams.
+
+\b ELF had a hard limit on the number of sections which caused
+segfaults when transgressed. Fixed.
+
+\b Added ability for ndisasm to read from stdin by using `-' as the
+filename.
+
+\b ndisasm wasn't outputting the TO keyword. Fixed.
+
+\b Fixed error cascade on bogus expression in \c{%if} - an error in
+evaluation was causing the entire \c{%if} to be discarded, thus creating
+trouble later when the \c{%else} or \c{%endif} was encountered.
+
+\b Forward reference tracking was instruction-granular not operand-
+granular, which was causing 286-specific code to be generated
+needlessly on code of the form `shr word [forwardref],1'. Thanks to
+Jim Hague for sending a patch.
+
+\b All messages now appear on stdout, as sending them to stderr serves
+no useful purpose other than to make redirection difficult.
+
+\b Fixed the problem with EQUs pointing to an external symbol - this
+now generates an error message.
+
+\b Allowed multiple size prefixes to an operand, of which only the first
+is taken into account.
+
+\b Incorporated John Fine's changes, including fixes of a large number
+of preprocessor bugs, some small problems in OBJ, and a reworking of
+label handling to define labels before their line is assembled, rather
+than after.
+
+\b Reformatted a lot of the source code to be more readable. Included
+'coding.txt' as a guideline for how to format code for contributors.
+
+\b Stopped nested \c{%reps} causing a panic - they now cause a slightly more
+friendly error message instead.
+
+\b Fixed floating point constant problems (patch by Pedro Gimeno)
+
+\b Fixed the return value of insn_size() not being checked for -1, indicating
+an error.
+
+\b Incorporated 3Dnow! instructions.
+
+\b Fixed the 'mov eax, eax + ebx' bug.
+
+\b Fixed the GLOBAL EQU bug in ELF. Released developers release 3.
+
+\b Incorporated John Fine's command line parsing changes
+
+\b Incorporated David Lindauer's OMF debug support
+
+\b Made changes for LCC 4.0 support (\c{__NASM_CDecl__}, removed register size
+specification warning when sizes agree).
+
+
+\H{cl-0.9x} NASM 0.9 Series
+
+Revisions before 0.98.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.97} Version 0.97 released December 1997
+
+\b This was entirely a bug-fix release to 0.96, which seems to have got
+cursed. Silly me.
+
+\b Fixed stupid mistake in OBJ which caused `MOV EAX,<constant>' to
+fail. Caused by an error in the `MOV EAX,<segment>' support.
+
+\b ndisasm hung at EOF when compiled with lcc on Linux because lcc on
+Linux somehow breaks feof(). ndisasm now does not rely on feof().
+
+\b A heading in the documentation was missing due to a markup error in
+the indexing. Fixed.
+
+\b Fixed failure to update all pointers on realloc() within extended-
+operand code in parser.c. Was causing wrong behaviour and seg faults
+on lines such as `dd 0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,...'
+
+\b Fixed a subtle preprocessor bug whereby invoking one multi-line
+macro on the first line of the expansion of another, when the second
+had been invoked with a label defined before it, didn't expand the
+inner macro.
+
+\b Added internal.doc back in to the distribution archives - it was
+missing in 0.96 *blush*
+
+\b Fixed bug causing 0.96 to be unable to assemble its own test files,
+specifically objtest.asm. *blush again*
+
+\b Fixed seg-faults and bogus error messages caused by mismatching
+\c{%rep} and \c{%endrep} within multi-line macro definitions.
+
+\b Fixed a problem with buffer overrun in OBJ, which was causing
+corruption at ends of long PUBDEF records.
+
+\b Separated DOS archives into main-program and documentation to reduce
+download size.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.96} Version 0.96 released November 1997
+
+\b Fixed a bug whereby, if `nasm sourcefile' would cause a filename
+collision warning and put output into `nasm.out', then `nasm
+sourcefile -o outputfile' still gave the warning even though the
+`-o' was honoured.
+Fixed name pollution under Digital UNIX: one of its header files
+defined R_SP, which broke the enum in nasm.h.
+
+\b Fixed minor instruction table problems: FUCOM and FUCOMP didn't have
+two-operand forms; NDISASM didn't recognise the longer register
+forms of PUSH and POP (eg FF F3 for PUSH BX); TEST mem,imm32 was
+flagged as undocumented; the 32-bit forms of CMOV had 16-bit operand
+size prefixes; `AAD imm' and `AAM imm' are no longer flagged as
+undocumented because the Intel Architecture reference documents
+them.
+
+\b Fixed a problem with the local-label mechanism, whereby strange
+types of symbol (EQUs, auto-defined OBJ segment base symbols)
+interfered with the `previous global label' value and screwed up
+local labels.
+
+\b Fixed a bug whereby the stub preprocessor didn't communicate with
+the listing file generator, so that the -a and -l options in
+conjunction would produce a useless listing file.
+
+\b Merged `os2' object file format back into `obj', after discovering
+that `obj' _also_ shouldn't have a link pass separator in a module
+containing a non-trivial MODEND. Flat segments are now declared
+using the FLAT attribute. `os2' is no longer a valid object format
+name: use `obj'.
+
+\b Removed the fixed-size temporary storage in the evaluator. Very very
+long expressions (like `mov ax,1+1+1+1+...' for two hundred 1s or
+so) should now no longer crash NASM.
+
+\b Fixed a bug involving segfaults on disassembly of MMX instructions,
+by changing the meaning of one of the operand-type flags in nasm.h.
+This may cause other apparently unrelated MMX problems; it needs to
+be tested thoroughly.
+
+\b Fixed some buffer overrun problems with large OBJ output files.
+Thanks to DJ Delorie for the bug report and fix.
+
+\b Made preprocess-only mode actually listen to the \c{%line} markers as it
+prints them, so that it can report errors more sanely.
+
+\b Re-designed the evaluator to keep more sensible track of expressions
+involving forward references: can now cope with previously-nightmare
+situations such as:
+
+\c   mov ax,foo | bar
+\c   foo equ 1
+\c   bar equ 2
+
+\b Added the ALIGN and ALIGNB standard macros.
+
+\b Added PIC support in ELF: use of WRT to obtain the four extra
+relocation types needed.
+
+\b Added the ability for output file formats to define their own
+extensions to the GLOBAL, COMMON and EXTERN directives.
+
+\b Implemented common-variable alignment, and global-symbol type and
+size declarations, in ELF.
+
+\b Implemented NEAR and FAR keywords for common variables, plus
+far-common element size specification, in OBJ.
+
+\b Added a feature whereby EXTERNs and COMMONs in OBJ can be given a
+default WRT specification (either a segment or a group).
+
+\b Transformed the Unix NASM archive into an auto-configuring package.
+
+\b Added a sanity-check for people applying SEG to things which are
+already segment bases: this previously went unnoticed by the SEG
+processing and caused OBJ-driver panics later.
+
+\b Added the ability, in OBJ format, to deal with `MOV EAX,<segment>'
+type references: OBJ doesn't directly support dword-size segment
+base fixups, but as long as the low two bytes of the constant term
+are zero, a word-size fixup can be generated instead and it will
+work.
+
+\b Added the ability to specify sections' alignment requirements in
+Win32 object files and pure binary files.
+
+\b Added preprocess-time expression evaluation: the \c{%assign} (and
+\c{%iassign}) directive and the bare \c{%if} (and \c{%elif}) conditional. Added
+relational operators to the evaluator, for use only in \c{%if}
+constructs: the standard relationals = < > <= >= <> (and C-like
+synonyms == and !=) plus low-precedence logical operators &&, ^^ and
+||.
+
+\b Added a preprocessor repeat construct: \c{%rep} / \c{%exitrep} / \c{%endrep}.
+
+\b Added the __FILE__ and __LINE__ standard macros.
+
+\b Added a sanity check for number constants being greater than
+0xFFFFFFFF. The warning can be disabled.
+
+\b Added the %0 token whereby a variadic multi-line macro can tell how
+many parameters it's been given in a specific invocation.
+
+\b Added \c{%rotate}, allowing multi-line macro parameters to be cycled.
+
+\b Added the `*' option for the maximum parameter count on multi-line
+macros, allowing them to take arbitrarily many parameters.
+
+\b Added the ability for the user-level forms of EXTERN, GLOBAL and
+COMMON to take more than one argument.
+
+\b Added the IMPORT and EXPORT directives in OBJ format, to deal with
+Windows DLLs.
+
+\b Added some more preprocessor \c{%if} constructs: \c{%ifidn} / \c{%ifidni} (exact
+textual identity), and \c{%ifid} / \c{%ifnum} / \c{%ifstr} (token type testing).
+
+\b Added the ability to distinguish SHL AX,1 (the 8086 version) from
+SHL AX,BYTE 1 (the 286-and-upwards version whose constant happens to
+be 1).
+
+\b Added NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD's variant of a.out format, complete
+with PIC shared library features.
+
+\b Changed NASM's idiosyncratic handling of FCLEX, FDISI, FENI, FINIT,
+FSAVE, FSTCW, FSTENV, and FSTSW to bring it into line with the
+otherwise accepted standard. The previous behaviour, though it was a
+deliberate feature, was a deliberate feature based on a
+misunderstanding. Apologies for the inconvenience.
+
+\b Improved the flexibility of ABSOLUTE: you can now give it an
+expression rather than being restricted to a constant, and it can
+take relocatable arguments as well.
+
+\b Added the ability for a variable to be declared as EXTERN multiple
+times, and the subsequent definitions are just ignored.
+
+\b We now allow instruction prefixes (CS, DS, LOCK, REPZ etc) to be
+alone on a line (without a following instruction).
+
+\b Improved sanity checks on whether the arguments to EXTERN, GLOBAL
+and COMMON are valid identifiers.
+
+\b Added misc/exebin.mac to allow direct generation of .EXE files by
+hacking up an EXE header using DB and DW; also added test/binexe.asm
+to demonstrate the use of this. Thanks to Yann Guidon for
+contributing the EXE header code.
+
+\b ndisasm forgot to check whether the input file had been successfully
+opened. Now it does. Doh!
+
+\b Added the Cyrix extensions to the MMX instruction set.
+
+\b Added a hinting mechanism to allow [EAX+EBX] and [EBX+EAX] to be
+assembled differently. This is important since [ESI+EBP] and
+[EBP+ESI] have different default base segment registers.
+
+\b Added support for the PharLap OMF extension for 4096-byte segment
+alignment.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.95 released July 1997} Version 0.95 released July 1997
+
+\b Fixed yet another ELF bug. This one manifested if the user relied on
+the default segment, and attempted to define global symbols without
+first explicitly declaring the target segment.
+
+\b Added makefiles (for NASM and the RDF tools) to build Win32 console
+apps under Symantec C++. Donated by Mark Junker.
+
+\b Added `macros.bas' and `insns.bas', QBasic versions of the Perl
+scripts that convert `standard.mac' to `macros.c' and convert
+`insns.dat' to `insnsa.c' and `insnsd.c'. Also thanks to Mark
+Junker.
+
+\b Changed the diassembled forms of the conditional instructions so
+that JB is now emitted as JC, and other similar changes. Suggested
+list by Ulrich Doewich.
+
+\b Added `@' to the list of valid characters to begin an identifier
+with.
+
+\b Documentary changes, notably the addition of the `Common Problems'
+section in nasm.doc.
+
+\b Fixed a bug relating to 32-bit PC-relative fixups in OBJ.
+
+\b Fixed a bug in perm_copy() in labels.c which was causing exceptions
+in cleanup_labels() on some systems.
+
+\b Positivity sanity check in TIMES argument changed from a warning to
+an error following a further complaint.
+
+\b Changed the acceptable limits on byte and word operands to allow
+things like `~10111001b' to work.
+
+\b Fixed a major problem in the preprocessor which caused seg-faults if
+macro definitions contained blank lines or comment-only lines.
+
+\b Fixed inadequate error checking on the commas separating the
+arguments to `db', `dw' etc.
+
+\b Fixed a crippling bug in the handling of macros with operand counts
+defined with a `+' modifier.
+
+\b Fixed a bug whereby object file formats which stored the input file
+name in the output file (such as OBJ and COFF) weren't doing so
+correctly when the output file name was specified on the command
+line.
+
+\b Removed [INC] and [INCLUDE] support for good, since they were
+obsolete anyway.
+
+\b Fixed a bug in OBJ which caused all fixups to be output in 16-bit
+(old-format) FIXUPP records, rather than putting the 32-bit ones in
+FIXUPP32 (new-format) records.
+
+\b Added, tentatively, OS/2 object file support (as a minor variant on
+OBJ).
+
+\b Updates to Fox Cutter's Borland C makefile, Makefile.bc2.
+
+\b Removed a spurious second fclose() on the output file.
+
+\b Added the `-s' command line option to redirect all messages which
+would go to stderr (errors, help text) to stdout instead.
+
+\b Added the `-w' command line option to selectively suppress some
+classes of assembly warning messages.
+
+\b Added the `-p' pre-include and `-d' pre-define command-line options.
+
+\b Added an include file search path: the `-i' command line option.
+
+\b Fixed a silly little preprocessor bug whereby starting a line with a
+`%!' environment-variable reference caused an `unknown directive'
+error.
+
+\b Added the long-awaited listing file support: the `-l' command line
+option.
+
+\b Fixed a problem with OBJ format whereby, in the absence of any
+explicit segment definition, non-global symbols declared in the
+implicit default segment generated spurious EXTDEF records in the
+output.
+
+\b Added the NASM environment variable.
+
+\b From this version forward, Win32 console-mode binaries will be
+included in the DOS distribution in addition to the 16-bit binaries.
+Added Makefile.vc for this purpose.
+
+\b Added `return 0;' to test/objlink.c to prevent compiler warnings.
+
+\b Added the __NASM_MAJOR__ and __NASM_MINOR__ standard defines.
+
+\b Added an alternative memory-reference syntax in which prefixing an
+operand with `&' is equivalent to enclosing it in square brackets,
+at the request of Fox Cutter.
+
+\b Errors in pass two now cause the program to return a non-zero error
+code, which they didn't before.
+
+\b Fixed the single-line macro cycle detection, which didn't work at
+all on macros with no parameters (caused an infinite loop). Also
+changed the behaviour of single-line macro cycle detection to work
+like cpp, so that macros like `extrn' as given in the documentation
+can be implemented.
+
+\b Fixed the implementation of WRT, which was too restrictive in that
+you couldn't do `mov ax,[di+abc wrt dgroup]' because (di+abc) wasn't
+a relocatable reference.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.94 released April 1997} Version 0.94 released April 1997
+
+
+\b Major item: added the macro processor.
+
+\b Added undocumented instructions SMI, IBTS, XBTS and LOADALL286. Also
+reorganised CMPXCHG instruction into early-486 and Pentium forms.
+Thanks to Thobias Jones for the information.
+
+\b Fixed two more stupid bugs in ELF, which were causing `ld' to
+continue to seg-fault in a lot of non-trivial cases.
+
+\b Fixed a seg-fault in the label manager.
+
+\b Stopped FBLD and FBSTP from _requiring_ the TWORD keyword, which is
+the only option for BCD loads/stores in any case.
+
+\b Ensured FLDCW, FSTCW and FSTSW can cope with the WORD keyword, if
+anyone bothers to provide it. Previously they complained unless no
+keyword at all was present.
+
+\b Some forms of FDIV/FDIVR and FSUB/FSUBR were still inverted: a
+vestige of a bug that I thought had been fixed in 0.92. This was
+fixed, hopefully for good this time...
+
+\b Another minor phase error (insofar as a phase error can _ever_ be
+minor) fixed, this one occurring in code of the form
+
+\c   rol ax,forward_reference
+\c   forward_reference equ 1
+
+\b The number supplied to TIMES is now sanity-checked for positivity,
+and also may be greater than 64K (which previously didn't work on
+16-bit systems).
+
+\b Added Watcom C makefiles, and misc/pmw.bat, donated by Dominik Behr.
+
+\b Added the INCBIN pseudo-opcode.
+
+\b Due to the advent of the preprocessor, the [INCLUDE] and [INC]
+directives have become obsolete. They are still supported in this
+version, with a warning, but won't be in the next.
+
+\b Fixed a bug in OBJ format, which caused incorrect object records to
+be output when absolute labels were made global.
+
+\b Updates to RDOFF subdirectory, and changes to outrdf.c.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.93 released January 1997} Version 0.93 released January 1997
+
+This release went out in a great hurry after semi-crippling bugs
+were found in 0.92.
+
+\b Really \e{did} fix the stack overflows this time. *blush*
+
+\b Had problems with EA instruction sizes changing between passes, when
+an offset contained a forward reference and so 4 bytes were
+allocated for the offset in pass one; by pass two the symbol had
+been defined and happened to be a small absolute value, so only 1
+byte got allocated, causing instruction size mismatch between passes
+and hence incorrect address calculations. Fixed.
+
+\b Stupid bug in the revised ELF section generation fixed (associated
+string-table section for .symtab was hard-coded as 7, even when this
+didn't fit with the real section table). Was causing `ld' to
+seg-fault under Linux.
+
+\b Included a new Borland C makefile, Makefile.bc2, donated by Fox
+Cutter <lmb@comtch.iea.com>.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.92 released January 1997} Version 0.92 released January 1997
+
+\b The FDIVP/FDIVRP and FSUBP/FSUBRP pairs had been inverted: this was
+fixed. This also affected the LCC driver.
+
+\b Fixed a bug regarding 32-bit effective addresses of the form
+\c{[other_register+ESP]}.
+
+\b Documentary changes, notably documentation of the fact that Borland
+Win32 compilers use `obj' rather than `win32' object format.
+
+\b Fixed the COMENT record in OBJ files, which was formatted
+incorrectly.
+
+\b Fixed a bug causing segfaults in large RDF files.
+
+\b OBJ format now strips initial periods from segment and group
+definitions, in order to avoid complications with the local label
+syntax.
+
+\b Fixed a bug in disassembling far calls and jumps in NDISASM.
+
+\b Added support for user-defined sections in COFF and ELF files.
+
+\b Compiled the DOS binaries with a sensible amount of stack, to
+prevent stack overflows on any arithmetic expression containing
+parentheses.
+
+\b Fixed a bug in handling of files that do not terminate in a newline.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.91 released November 1996} Version 0.91 released November 1996
+
+\b Loads of bug fixes.
+
+\b Support for RDF added.
+
+\b Support for DBG debugging format added.
+
+\b Support for 32-bit extensions to Microsoft OBJ format added.
+
+\b Revised for Borland C: some variable names changed, makefile added.
+
+\b LCC support revised to actually work.
+
+\b JMP/CALL NEAR/FAR notation added.
+
+\b `a16', `o16', `a32' and `o32' prefixes added.
+
+\b Range checking on short jumps implemented.
+
+\b MMX instruction support added.
+
+\b Negative floating point constant support added.
+
+\b Memory handling improved to bypass 64K barrier under DOS.
+
+\b \c{$} prefix to force treatment of reserved words as identifiers added.
+
+\b Default-size mechanism for object formats added.
+
+\b Compile-time configurability added.
+
+\b \c{#}, \c{@}, \c{~} and c\{?} are now valid characters in labels.
+
+\b \c{-e} and \c{-k} options in NDISASM added.
+
+
+\S{cl-0.90 released October 1996} Version 0.90 released October 1996
+
+First release version. First support for object file output. Other
+changes from previous version (0.3x) too numerous to document.