Thank you for any pointers.

Windows XP
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*# as -version
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.19.1
Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `mingw32'.*
**
**
*as   -o crc32_x86.o crc32_x86.s*

crc32_x86.S: Assembler messages:
crc32_x86.S:80: Warning: .type pseudo-op used outside of .def/.endef
ignored.
crc32_x86.S:80: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is
`L'
crc32_x86.S:83: Error: invalid character '(' in mnemonic
crc32_x86.S:118: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is
`|'

crc32_x86.S:137: Error: invalid character '(' in mnemonic
crc32_x86.S:160: Error: invalid character '(' in mnemonic
crc32_x86.S:271: Error: invalid character '(' in mnemonic
crc32_x86.S:279: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
crc32_x86.S:279: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is
`,'

crc32_x86.S:281: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.indirect_symbol'
crc32_x86.S:293: Warning: .size pseudo-op used outside of .def/.endef
ignored.
crc32_x86.S:293: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is
`L'

crc32_x86.S:302: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is
`-'

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