Re: Auditioning Pelle's new macro assembler.

hutch-- wrote:

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In the short term, you can download a copy of BETA 1.0 at this URL.

http://www.masmforum.com/simple/index.php?topic=3714.0

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INCBIN is a new operator for
directly including any form of data in either the .DATA or .CODE
sections.

Masm didn't have that, huh? I think you'll like it - comes in handy sometimes. Nasm's version has the option of specifying a starting offset and length, as well as the filename (not useful that often, but gives it more flexibility). If Pelle's doesn't already do that, you might mention it to him.

It can easily embed large amounts of data with a 4k single line limit

We ran across a 256 byte limit in an older version of Masm (some hla output) a while back. Your comment to Pelle suggested that's still the case. So PoAsm is better than Masm in two ways... and counting!

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This is a new assembler that in a matter of weeks

Do you know when he actually "started" this project? Seems to be making *very* good progress. Maybe writing the compiler first helps - or maybe the guy is just amazing!

Thanks for keeping us up to date on that. When it becomes mature enough, we'll drag it in here and *** on it! :)

Best,
Frank
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