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