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From: garyb@abekrd.co.uk (Gary Bartlett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: (Free) Assemblers (was: Re: is it possible to port GNU-GCC-Compiler to Archimedes running RISC-OS ?)
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.110018.12714@abekrd.co.uk>
Date: 26 Feb 91 11:00:18 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.085225.11667@cl.cam.ac.uk> <5309@acorn.co.uk> <1779@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>
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In <1779@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> rcpieter@wsinti02.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr) writes:
>True, but there is no free assembler yet.  The Acorn assembler is
>extremely expensive, and the Wingpass is, well, not widely used/known
>(are there any other assemblers for RISC OS?).  On the topic of GAS:
>you don't want to know about it.  GAS is horrible, in that the

What with all this talk of assemblers for the Archimedes, it strikes me that
it shouldn't be too difficult to write a program which takes an assembler
source, pre-processes it and emits it to the BASIC assembler for assembly.
Since every Archimedes comes with the ability to assemble in BASIC this
would result in a very small assembler.  Am I missing something here?  Thoughts?
(I'm sure with enough header information supplied the required output format
could be achieved.)

How good is the (eagerly awaited) assembler that is going to be posted to
c.b.a. on its creation?  Could the author post a summary (ReadMe) here?

Cheers,
Gary
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