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From: eru@eiffel.tele.nokia.fi (Erkki Ruohtula)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Has any one written a .s (minix) -> .asm (tasm) translator?
Summary: assembly
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Date: 8 Jun 89 17:03:42 GMT
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The syntaxes of the two assemblers are totally different, thus
translators both ways would be useful. Translation from minix syntax to
Microsoft- (really Intel-) syntax is probably easy, since the type
of the operands is encoded in the operation name and the syntax is
simple, but the reverse operation needs more work. One must keep track
of the types of the labels. I think this .asm->.s transformation would
be more useful than the one asked in the header, as there are MS-DOS .asm
sources that could be ported to minix. It would also facilitate using
MS-DOS compilers with assemby output option for minix programming.

The Book does not really describe the minix assembler syntax, it refers
to PC/IX documentation that is hard to come by. I collected the reserved
words from the binary, but that does not tell much about the legal forms of
the addresses. Has anybody figured/digged out the syntax in full?

Erkki Ruohtula
eru@eiffel.tele.nokia.fi