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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: VAX Ultrix assembler info
Keywords: VAX assembler
Message-ID: <15990@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 20 Nov 90 20:03:18 GMT
References: <1990Nov19.203115.14061@dsuvax.uucp>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Nov19.203115.14061@dsuvax.uucp> ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) writes:
> Hello!  I am in desperate need of guidance, as I am in search of
> good reference materials for the VAX Ultrix assembler.  The target
> audience of this information is undergrad students, and I need to
> find a good reference detailing things like the instruction set
> and registers, grammar of the assembler, running the assembler and
> loader, and other things pertinent to teaching a class VAX assembler
> language.

You have a bit of a problem...  The unix assemblers aren't really intended
as general purpose assemblers, rather they are compiler back ends that
you can hand write code for if you really want to.

There is a section on the VAX assembler in the orginal Berkeley manual
set that is distributed as Ultrix supplementary documentation.  It's
pretty sketchy.

> I am having a bit of trouble locating such material.  All help
> is graciously accepted.  Thank you.

Much as I hate to admit it, but if you intend to teach a traditional
assembly language class, I'd recommed using VMS, where you can find
a traditional full-featured macro-assembler.

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