Alternatives for outdated assembler (AS)?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 09/04/15 21:24, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to compile Crypto++ on OSX *with* ASM enabled. By default,
>> Crpyto++ disabled ASM because of Apple's outdated assembler. The
>> problem occurs with both Command Line Tools and Xcode (a sample of the
>> errors is shown below).
>>
>> I installed the Binutils package, but it does not come with an updated
>> assembler.
>>
>> What are the options for using an updated assembler on OS X?
>
> *which* OS X version though ? Big difference between 10.6 and 10.10 ...

OS X 10.8.5, fully patched.