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From: oystein@ifi.uio.no (ystein Carl Emil Hebnes)
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Subject: Re: (Free) Assemblers (was: Re: is it possible to port GNU-GCC-Compiler to Archimedes running RISC-OS ?)
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Date: 1 Mar 91 11:34:56 GMT
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In article <1991Feb26.110018.12714@abekrd.co.uk>, garyb@abekrd.co.uk (Gary Bartlett) writes:

> 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.)
[...]
 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> -- 

Sounds a bit far fetched to me, perhaps. Remember also, that quite a few
of us need output in AOF, and the BASIC assembler can only produce absolute
code.

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