Flat Assembler Safe To Upgrade?

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Any pros/cons to using the latest version of Flat Assmbler? Thanks.


marksibly (Posted 7 months ago) - "BlitzMax Update 124 Now Available!"

Quote Grisu: Btw: Will the flat assembler updated sometime as well?!?

The current version works fine - what would an update achieve apart from potential compatibility problems? I seriously doubt this would happen - FASM is written be a seriously clever dude, but still, if it ain't broke etc...

Unlike compilers, assemblers either work or they don't - you don't generally get 'good' assemblers that generate efficient code and 'bad' ones that don't.

Bye!
Mark Sibly



10-4. Thanks.

@MGE - try upgrading. I'm pretty sure newer versions of FASM are considerably faster at assembling. If you get any dodgy errors, you can always fall back. I ran a newer version on my old rig with no problems.

I'm using the newest version without ANY problems under Winxp as well. Just make sure you backup the old exe before replacing it.