Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!homxb!gemini
From: gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Microsoft Assembler
Keywords: dumb?
Message-ID: <1428@homxb.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 88 17:39:48 GMT
Organization: AT&T Consumer Products
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We have a need to convert 8088 assembler code from an assembler
that operates like most UNIX assemblers to the Microsoft Assembler.
The conversion is not a one time deal.  We expect to convert
many times over the next few months.

We have a tool that does the conversion for us, except for the
following:

	The UNIX-style assembler is smart enough to use short or long
	jmp's, as well as to convert conditional jumps that would jump
	more than 128 bytes to the opposite jump around a long jump.

	We could find no way of doing this with the Microsoft 4.0 assembler.

The question is: is it possible to get this sort of feature from the
Microsoft 5.0 assembler?  is it possible to write a macro to do this?
or is it just plain not possible with the Microsoft tools?