Yasm working with Win32

I thought you might like to know that after the Yasm developer, Peter  
Johnson, added support for complex relocations and a little testing,  
Yasm now works for Win32 (and, presumably Win64 but I am not able to  
test that far).  To try it yourself, grab the latest development  
snapshot, 'yasm-r1705.exe' or later from http://cvs.tortall.net/ 
projects/yasm/snapshots/r1705/ .

There is one caveat: the Yasm-output object file with complex  
relocations results in extra symbols that cause the Windows loader to  
choke.  You need to strip all symbols ('ld -s ...') after assembling  
the object file.

Here is an example session:

(in MSYS):
 > ghc -pgma "yasm-r1705" -opta "-a x86" -opta "-p gas" -opta "-f  
win32" -optl-s hello.hs -o hello
--yasm will complain that it does not recognise the "-c" option; this  
is an artifact in GHC

 > hello
yasm works!

Notes:
architecture: -a x86 (i386)
parser: -g gas
obj format: -f win32 (win32-COFF)

Next on the list is to get GHC to build using Yasm and test it...

Cheers,
Pete