I am curious to hear some specifics of why APE did not work with nasm or fasm. Your earlier comment mentioned "tight cooperation with the linker" -- I don't kn

I am curious to hear some specifics of why APE did not work with nasm or fasm. Your earlier comment mentioned "tight cooperation with the linker" -- I don't know what this means. My mental model is that all assemblers ultimately produce an object file. It's not clear to me what would make one object file integrate better with a linker than another, unless there are certain .o outputs that nasm or fasm were not capable of generating.