Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!grwalter
From: grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Best Assembler Development Environment
Keywords: asm assembler
Message-ID: <7484@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 88 01:14:15 GMT
References: <5051@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Reply-To: grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <5051@garfield.MUN.EDU> john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell) writes:
%%I am looking for opinions as to the best development environment for
%%someone programming in assembler, as I have recently started to experiment
%%with 68000 asm for writing Amiga programs. 
%%
%%The options I know of so far are --
%%
[stuff deleted]
%%
%%ASM68k: on Fish disk #81, by Wesley Howe. I can't remember seeing any
%%	discussion of this on the net, but it has extensive and good
%%	documentation and a number of features I was hoping to find
%%	in my assembler-of-choice. Don't know about possible bugs, the
%%	docs indicate it should be reliable.

I've seen one or two minor bug fixes to this one fly by somewhere (on a bbs or
usenet, I can't remember). Played with it some, seems good. Source is a big
plus.

%%ASM:	on Fish disk #46, by Doug Leavitt Jr. Handles 68010 opcodes, and
%%	some of the same optimizations as ASM68k. Missing some opcode
%%	variants and many directives. Documentation provided is basically
%%	a listing of differences with the AmigaDOS manual.

Utter trash. Doesn't properly assemble several opcodes (I seem to recall addq ?
being one). The next version or two is the same. Blech.

%%Right now I'm leaning towards ASM68k. The only BLink I have listed in my
%%disk catalog is the one included with the Draco distribution. Is there a
%%newer one? If so, what improvements are there?

The latest version comes with Lattice and is copyrighted and you can't
distribute it.

I don't recall which was the latest freely redistributable version.

	fred