[Bug 58533] New: RFE: add support for building with NASM

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58533

Bug ID: 58533
           Summary: RFE: add support for building with NASM
           Product: Wine-gecko
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-gecko-unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

YASM is a build dependency of wine-gecko, but it's unmaintained upstream[1] and
has many unfixed bugs, many of them security-relevant. Please consider adding
support for building with NASM instead. NASM is still actively maintained.

[1] https://github.com/yasm/yasm/issues/164#issuecomment-1351844621

[Bug 58533] RFE: add support for building with NASM

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Michael Cronenworth  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Michael Cronenworth  ---
Dominik, apologies, but I am not familiar with either yasm or nasm. Would it be
possible to rename references to "yasm" to "nasm" if they are interchangeable?

[Bug 58533] RFE: add support for building with NASM

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--- Comment #2 from Dominik Mierzejewski  ---
No need to apologise. I'm not very familiar, either. They're not drop-in
replaceable. YASM seems to support GAS syntax, while NASM does not.
Feature-wise, I think NASM supports all current x86_64 extensions up to AVX512
while YASM does not (e.g. https://github.com/yasm/yasm/issues/101). It
shouldn't be too difficult to either drop the requirement or port to NASM.