> there's a realmode assembler in /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/realmode.tbz.
> it does all addressing modes supported by x86 in 16bit mode.
> 8a already does all the 32bit stuff one would need.

I'd say that proves my point, in that a single assembler for both
families seems hard to put together. Or should I look harder?

++L

lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
>> there's a realmode assembler in /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/realmode.tbz.
>> it does all addressing modes supported by x86 in 16bit mode.
>> 8a already does all the 32bit stuff one would need.
>
> I'd say that proves my point, in that a single assembler for both
> families seems hard to put together. Or should I look harder?
>
> ++L
>
>

Probably.

It has been a long while, but IIRC the MC 68008 / 16 / 32 path (width, not part
numbers), or the later IBM/Motorola Power Series architecture were places where
a degree of 'seamlessness' and auto-adaptation was sought across bit-width.

I don't recall how successful the efforts were, 'coz the impending cost of
adding yet-another-fee-not-free assembler drove me to Ray Duncan's LMI forth
around the time the 68000 and 6809 were new, and forth was a lot happier than
asm-generated output in small memory. Reasonably self-documenting, too if you
had a modicum of discipline in your style. And only if.

Bill

Yes! No! Yes! No!
Yes!
No!

If you don't play,
you don't have to try to win.
(There is no award, after all.)

For goodness' sake,
please end this thread.
--
Benn Newman

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On 5/6/07, Benn Newman wrote:
> Yes! No! Yes! No!
> Yes!
> No!
>
> If you don't play,
> you don't have to try to win.
> (There is no award, after all.)
>
> For goodness' sake,
> please end this thread.
> --
> Benn Newman
>