anonymous tickets disabled?

[Peter Johnson]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Newer versions (I'm using 0.6.0) don't do that. The yasm man page and
> possibly all related documentation need to be updated. This is taken
> from my yasm man page:
>
> ''
> When using the "x86" architecture, it is overly easy to generate AMD64
> code (using the BITS 64 directive) and generate a 32-bit object file (by
> failing to specify -m amd64 or selecting a 64-bit object format such as
> ELF64 on the command line). Similarly, specifying -m amd64 does not
> default the BITS setting to 64. An easy way to avoid this is by directly
> specifying a 64-bit object format such as -f elf64.
> ''
>
> Since yasm doesn't generate that warning anymore, it's confusing whether
> yasm now automatically enables 64bit mode when '-m amd64' is used or
> whether the waning has simply been removed and 'BITS 64' is still needed.

The first; yasm now automatically enables BITS 64 when -m amd64 is used. 
I'll fix up the documentation.

I'm not sure why submitting a ticket didn't work for you.  We've got a 
fair amount of spam filtering enabled so it's possible you somehow 
triggered it by accident.

Thanks,
Peter