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  5. version 1.70.03 (Jun 29, 2012)
  6.  
  7. [-] Allowed to freely upgrade or downgrade the relocatable addresses in
  8.     object format between the 32-bit or 64-bit size.
  9.  
  10.  
  11. version 1.70.02 (May 22, 2012)
  12.  
  13. [-] Corrected the optimization of segment prefixes when the extended syntax
  14.     of some string instructions ("cmps", "lods", "movs" and "outs") is
  15.     used in long mode. Now it is consistent with optimizations done with
  16.     all the other instructions.
  17.  
  18.  
  19. version 1.70.01 (Apr 30, 2012)
  20.  
  21. [-] Corrected a recently introduced bug that caused some illegal
  22.     address expressions to cause an error prematurely during the
  23.     parsing stage.
  24.  
  25.  
  26. version 1.70 (Apr 17, 2012)
  27.  
  28. [+] Added support for AVX, AVX2, AES, CLMUL, FMA, RDRAND, FSGSBASE, F16C,
  29.     FMA4, XOP, MOVBE, BMI, TBM, INVPCID, HLE and RTM instruction sets.
  30.  
  31. [+] Added half-precision floating point values support.
  32.  
  33. [+] Extended the syntax of "rept" directive to allow numerical expressions
  34.     to be calculated by preprocessor in its arguments.
  35.  
  36. [+] Added "large" and "NX" settings for PE format.
  37.  
  38. [+] Allowed PE fixups to be resolved anywhere in the generated executable.
  39.  
  40. [+] Allowed to specify branding value (use 3 for Linux) after the
  41.     "format ELF executable" setting.
  42.  
  43. [+] Added "intepreter", "dynamic" and "note" keywords for creation of
  44.     special segments in ELF executables.
  45.  
  46. [-] Fixed long mode opcode generator to allow absolute addresses to be
  47.     generated with "qword" keyword inside square brackets.
  48.  
  49. [-] Disallowed negative immediates with "int", "enter", "ret" instructions.
  50.  
  51. [+] Allowed symbolic information dump file to be created even in case of error.
  52.     In such case it contains only the preprocessed source that can be extracted
  53.     with PREPSRC tool. If error occured during preprocessing, only the source up
  54.     to the point of error is provided.
  55.  
  56. [+] Added symbol references table to symbolic dump file.
  57.  
  58. [-] Corrected the "defined" and "used" flags in the symbols dump to reflect the
  59.     state from the final assembly pass.
  60.  
  61. [+] Added "assert" directive.
  62.  
  63. [-] Formatter symbols like "PE" or "readable" are now recognized only in the
  64.     context of formatter directives, and thus are no longer disallowed as
  65.     labels.
  66.  
  67. [+] Macroinstruction argument now can have default value, defined with "="
  68.     symbol followed by value after the argument name in definition.
  69.  
  70. [+] Added "relativeto" operator, which can be used in logical expressions
  71.     to test whether two values differ only by a constant and not relocatable
  72.     amount.
  73.  
  74. [-] Revised the expression calculator, it now is able to correctly perform
  75.     calculations in signed and unsigned ranges in full 64-bit. This fixes
  76.     a number of issues - the overflow will now be correctly detected for
  77.     64-bit values in cases, where previous versions could not distinguish
  78.     whether it was an overflow or not. The effect of these corrections is
  79.     that "dq" directive will now behave consistently with behavior of the
  80.     data directives for smaller sizes, and the same applies to all the
  81.     places where "qword" size for value is used.
  82.  
  83.  
  84. version 1.68 (Jun 13, 2009)
  85.  
  86. [+] Added SSSE3 (Supplemental SSE3), SSE4.1, SSE4.2 and SSE4a instructions.
  87.  
  88. [+] Added the AMD SVM and Intel SMX instructions.
  89.  
  90. [+] Added "rdmsrq", "wrmsrq", "sysexitq" and "sysretq" mnemonics for the
  91.     64-bit variants of respective instructions.
  92.  
  93. [+] Added "fstenvw", "fstenvd", "fsavew", "fsaved", "frstorw" and "frstord"
  94.     mnemonics to allow choosing between 16-bit and 32-bit variants of
  95.     structures used by the "fstenv", "fsave" and "frstor" instructions.
  96.  
  97. [+] Added "plt" operator for the ELF output format.
  98.  
  99. [+] Allowed "rva" operator to be used in MS COFF object format, and also
  100.     added "static" keyword for the "public" directive.
  101.  
  102. [+] Added Intel-style aliases for the additional long mode 8-bit registers.
  103.  
  104. [-] The PE formatter now automatically detects whether relocatable labels
  105.     should be used, depending on whether the fixups directory is placed
  106.     somewhere into executable by programer, or not. This makes possible the
  107.     more flexible use of the addressing symbols in case of PE executable fixed
  108.     at some position.
  109.  
  110. [-] Added support for outputting the 32-bit address relocations in case of
  111.     64-bit object formats and PE executable. This makes some specific
  112.     instructions compilable, but it also forces linker to put such
  113.     generated code into the low 2 gigabytes of addressing space.
  114.  
  115. [+] Added "EFI", "EFIboot" and "EFIruntime" subsystem keywords for PE format.
  116.  
  117. [-] Corrected the precedence of operators of macroinstruction line maker.
  118.     The symbol escaping now has always the higher priority than symbol conversion,
  119.     and both have higher precedence than concatenation.
  120.  
  121. [+] Allowed to check "@b" and "@f" symbols with "defined" operator.
  122.  
  123. [+] Allowed "as" operator to specify the output file extension when
  124.     placed at the end of the "format" directive line.
  125.  
  126. [-] Definition of macro with the same name as one of the preprocessor's directives
  127.     is no longer allowed.
  128.  
  129. [+] Allowed single quote character to be put inside the number value,
  130.     to help improve long numbers readability.
  131.  
  132. [+] Added optional symbolic information output, and a set of tools that extract
  133.     various kinds of information from it.
  134.  
  135. [+] Added "err" directive that allows to signalize error from the source.
  136.  
  137.  
  138. version 1.66 (May 7, 2006)
  139.  
  140. [+] Added "define" directive to preprocessor, which defines symbolic constants,
  141.     the same kind as "equ" directive, however there's an important difference
  142.     that "define" doesn't process symbolic constants in the value before
  143.     assigning it. For example:
  144.  
  145.         a equ 1
  146.         a equ a+a
  147.  
  148.         define b 1
  149.         define b b+b
  150.  
  151.     defines the "a" constant with value "1+1", but the "b" is defined with
  152.     value "b+b". This directive may be useful in some advanced
  153.     macroinstructions.
  154.  
  155. [-] Moved part of the conditional expression processing into parser,
  156.     for slightly better performance and lesser memory usage by assembler.
  157.     The logical values defined with "eq", "eqtype" and "in" operators are now
  158.     evaluated by the parser and if they are enough to determine the condition,
  159.     the whole block is processed accordingly. Thus this block:
  160.  
  161.         if eax eq EAX | 0/0
  162.                 nop
  163.         end if
  164.  
  165.     is parsed into just "nop" instruction, since parser is able to determine
  166.     that the condition is true, even though one of the logical values makes no
  167.     sense - but since this is none of the "eq", "eqtype" and "in" expressions,
  168.     the parser doesn't investigate.
  169.  
  170. [-] Also the assembler is now calculating only as many logical values as it
  171.     needs to determine the condition. So this block:
  172.  
  173.         if defined alpha & alpha
  174.  
  175.         end if
  176.  
  177.     will not cause error when "alpha" is not defined, as it would with previous
  178.     versions. This is because after checking that "defined alpha" is false
  179.     condition it doesn't need to know the second logical value to determine the
  180.     value of conjunction.
  181.  
  182. [+] Added "short" keyword for specifying jump type, the "jmp byte" form is now
  183.     obsolete and no longer correct - use "jmp short" instead.
  184.  
  185. [-] The size operator applied to jump no longer applies to the size of relative
  186.     displacement - now it applies to the size of target address.
  187.  
  188. [-] The "ret" instruction with 0 parameter is now assembled into short form,
  189.     unless you force using the 16-bit immediate with "word" operator.
  190.  
  191. [+] Added missing extended registers for the 32-bit addressing in long mode.
  192.  
  193. [+] Added "linkremove" and "linkinfo" section flags for MS COFF output.
  194.  
  195. [+] Added support for GOT offsets in ELF object formatter, which can be useful
  196.     when making position-independent code for shared libraries. For any label
  197.     you can get its offset relative to GOT by preceding it with "rva" operator
  198.     (the same keyword as for PE format is used, to avoid adding a new one,
  199.     while this one has very similar meaning).
  200.  
  201. [-] Changed ELF executable to use "segment" directive in place of "section",
  202.     to make the distinction between the run-time segments and linkable
  203.     sections. If you had a "section" directive in your ELF executables and they
  204.     no longer assemble, replace it with "segment".
  205.  
  206. [-] The PE formatter now always creates the fixups directory when told to -
  207.     even when there are no fixups to be put there (in such case it creates the
  208.     directory with one empty block).
  209.  
  210. [-] Some of the internal structures have been extended to provide the
  211.     possibility of making extensive symbol dumps.
  212.  
  213. [-] Corrected "fix" directive to keep the value intact before assigning it to the
  214.     prioritized constant.
  215.  
  216. [+] The ` operator now works with any kind of symbol; when used with quoted
  217.     string it simply does nothing. Thus the sequence of ` operators applied to
  218.     one symbol work the same as if there was just one. In similar manner, the
  219.     sequence of # operators now works as if it was a single one - using such a
  220.     sequence instead of escaping, which was kept for some backward
  221.     compatibility, is now deprecated.
  222.  
  223. [-] Corrected order of identifying assembler directives ("if db eq db" was
  224.     incorrectly interpreted as data definition).
  225.  
  226. [-] Many other small bugs fixed.
  227.  
  228.  
  229. version 1.64 (Aug 8, 2005)
  230.  
  231. [+] Output of PE executables for Win64 architecture (with "format PE64"
  232.     setting).
  233.  
  234. [+] Added "while" and "break" directives.
  235.  
  236. [+] Added "irp" and "irps" directives.
  237.  
  238. [+] The macro arguments can be marked as required with the "*" character.
  239.  
  240. [-] Fixed checking for overflow when multiplying 64-bit values - the result
  241.     must always fit in the range of signed 64 integer now.
  242.  
  243. [-] Segment prefixes were generated incorrectly in 16-bit mode when BP was used
  244.     as a second addressing register - fixed.
  245.  
  246. [-] The "local" directive was not creating unique labels in some cases - fixed.
  247.  
  248. [-] The "not encodable with long immediate" error in 64-bit mode was sometimes
  249.     wrongly signaled - fixed.
  250.  
  251. [-] Other minor fixes and corrections.
  252.  
  253.  
  254. version 1.62 (Jun 14, 2005)
  255.  
  256. [+] Escaping of symbols inside macroinstructions with backslash.
  257.  
  258. [+] Ability of outputting the COFF object files for Win64 architecture
  259.     (with "format MS64 COFF" setting).
  260.  
  261. [+] New preprocessor directives: "restruc", "rept" and "match"
  262.  
  263. [+] VMX instructions support (not documented).
  264.  
  265. [+] Extended data directives to allow use of the "dup" operator.
  266.  
  267. [+] Extended "struc" features to allow custom definitions of main structure's
  268.     label.
  269.  
  270. [-] When building resources from the the .RES file that contained more
  271.     than one resource of the same string name, the separate resource
  272.     directories were created with the same names - fixed.
  273.  
  274. [-] Several bugs in the ELF64 object output has been fixed.
  275.  
  276. [-] Corrected behavior of "fix" directive to more straightforward.
  277.  
  278. [-] Fixed bug in "include" directive, which caused files included from within
  279.     macros to be processed the wrong way.
  280.