Alternatives for outdated assembler (AS)?

[Chris Jones]

On 10/04/15 08:12, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> 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 Crpyto++ disabled ASM because of Apple's outdated assembler.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.

and Xcode version, is that up to date ?