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From: ron@emcard.UUCP (Ron Saad )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.edu,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Teaching Assembler on VAX (BSD 4.3)
Message-ID: <238@emcard.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 20:20:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: emcard.238
Posted: Thu May 21 20:20:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 14:54:29 EDT
References: <351@aucs.UUCP> <588@maccs.UUCP>
Reply-To: ron@emcard.UUCP (Ron Saad (Sys Admin))
Organization: Emory Clinic Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Atlanta, GA
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Summary: m4 provides usable macros for as.
Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:2481 comp.edu:405 comp.lang.misc:414

In article <588@maccs.UUCP> ns@maccs.UUCP (Nicholas Solntseff) writes:
% In article <351@aucs.UUCP> wdw@aucs.UUCP (Bill Wilder) writes:
% >... Is the
% >default assembler "as" suitable (i.e. friendly enough) for student use?
% 
% There is NO macro assembler available for the VAX (unlike the PDP-11).  I 
% 

That's true, but with *careful*, sane use of m4 and cpp it's not that
bad.  We used m4 for a Unix assembler course at PINY (just to see if we
could ... and survived!).

There's no need to get super fancy - simple macros in m4 will go a
long way, and you can either provide them for everyone's use, or have
the students write their own ...

Ron.
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