Re: It works... now what?

smile,

> Anybody wants to have an "Intel syntax" assembler, but it seems nobody
> accepts Intel's definition of an assembler:

I guess that includes you as among other things you have put
qualification on what an assembler is. Its public knowledge that Intel
no longer publish an assembler yet the bulk of its notation in its own
technical data is still in historical Intel notation.

While macro assemblers have been around in the mainframe market for
many years, the architypal MACRO assembler for MS-DOS and later
MIcrosoft OS versions is MASM. TASM had masm mode, various compilers
deliver correct Intel syntax and of late GNU(as) has a clean and
reliable implimentation of Intel syntax with the form ".intel_syntax
noprefix" so its not as if its poorly understood.

The bottom line with assembler notation is if you want it to be
understood by the largest number of people and be anything like
portable across different assemblers for x86, you use the historical
Intel syntax or get used to it being ignored.

Regards,

hutch at movsd dot com

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