Re: HLA
- From: "santosh" <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Jun 2006 14:11:20 -0700
brennan.vincent@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
.... snip ...
Just a bit of a nitpick, though: Mr. Hyde, the argument in your last
post is fallacious.
You think so?
Of course it's true that no one has ever written a
program in MASM that couldn't be translated to HLA,
Wrong. Sixteen bit real mode code cannot be directly translated into
HLA, as the latter only supports the flat memory model. In the 80s and
early 90s, all MASM code was of this type.
this is true of any
compiled language. It's also true that no one has ever written a
program in, for example, C++ that couldn't be translated to HLA, and
I'm sure nobody calls C++ an assembly language.
Neither is Randall claiming that. Ultimately all code produced by all
langauges can be translated to machine code. A possible definition of
an assembler is a translator that accepts all possible mnemonics
specified by the microprocessor manufacturer. HLA qualifies in this
regard, as long as you ignore 16 bit segmentation.
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