Update manual pages

Update manual pages to include 64-bit support, and remove section
about sync point limits in ndisasm.
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H. Peter Anvin 2007-09-19 21:41:27 -07:00
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@ -192,9 +192,10 @@ is reserved using the
.IR RESB ,
.IR RESW ,
.IR RESD ,
.I RESQ
and
.IR RESQ ,
.I REST
and
.I RESO
pseudo-opcodes, each taking one parameter which gives the number of
bytes, words, doublewords, quadwords or ten-byte words to reserve.
.PP
@ -297,9 +298,10 @@ finished doing absolute assembly, you must issue another
.I SECTION
directive to return to normal assembly.
.PP
.I BITS 16
or
.I BITS 16,
.I BITS 32
or
.I BITS 64
switches the default processor mode for which
.B nasm
is generating code: it is equivalent to

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@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ means of examining the target addresses of the relative jumps and
calls it disassembles.
.TP
.BI \-b " bits"
Specifies either 16-bit or 32-bit mode. The default is 16-bit mode.
Specifies 16-, 32- or 64-bit mode. The default is 16-bit mode.
.TP
.B \-u
Specifies 32-bit mode, more compactly than using `-b 32'.
@ -125,10 +125,5 @@ or calls result from disassembling non-machine-code data, sync
markers may get placed in strange places. Feel free to turn
auto-sync off and go back to doing it manually if necessary.
.PP
.B ndisasm
can only keep track of 8192 sync markers internally at once: this is
to do with portability, since DOS machines don't take kindly to more
than 64K being allocated at a time.
.PP
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR objdump "(" 1 ")."