5 engineers on Hacker News describe using GNU Assembler first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“it's a mess of hard-to-maintain assembly for two architectures, and we run into funny issues all the time where the two diverge.”
regret · production · saagarjha · 2022-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had the stupid idea to replace the nasm macros of my toy compiler with generated Assembly directly, and to reduce dependencies rely on gas... Never again.”
regret · personal · pjmlp · 2021-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Never again, after all this years I still have vague memories of how I used TASM and MASM, and trying to write x86 AT&T was such a pain.”
regret · personal · pjmlp · 2020-06-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since as had some issues with the Intel syntax I was using... Never again, it is just plain ugly.”
mixed · personal · pjmlp · 2016-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use gas for gcc compat, but it very clearly describes all of the usual 32 bit opcodes”
neutral · production · timtadh · 2014-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?