[Bug 268928] Developers' Handbook: x86 Assembly Language Programming: The Assembler: outdated

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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:36:58 UTC 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268928

            Bug ID: 268928
           Summary: Developers' Handbook: x86 Assembly Language
                    Programming: The Assembler: outdated
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Books & Articles
          Assignee: doc@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: grahamperrin@freebsd.org

<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/10apoa6/-/j461502/?context=2> notes
that this part of the Handbook is outdated: 

<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/developers-handbook/x86/#x86-the-assembler>

> … Two very different assemblers are available for FreeBSD. One is as(1), 
> which uses the traditional UNIX® assembly language syntax. It comes with 
> the system. …

From <https://www.freshports.org/devel/binutils/> for GNU binary tools: 

> … a collection of binary tools. The main ones are:
> 
> * ld - the GNU linker.
> * as - the GNU assembler.
> 
> …

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