Appendix B. Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all the people who have contributed ideas, answers, remarks, and moral support, and additionally the following persons, by order of appearance:

• Linus Torvalds for Linux

• Bruce Evans for bcc from which as86 is extracted

• Simon Tatham and Julian Hall for NASM

• Greg Hankins and now Tim Bynum for maintaining HOWTOs

• Raymond Moon for his FAQ

• Eric Dumas for his translation of the mini-HOWTO into French (sad thing for the original author to be French and write in English)

• Paul Anderson and Rahim Azizarab for helping me, if not for taking over the HOWTO

• Marc Lehman for his insight on GCC invocation

• Abhijit Menon-Sen for helping me figure out the argument passing convention