Re: Announcing the RosAsm Library Project

On Oct 4, 6:29 pm, "rh...@xxxxxxxxxx" <rh...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey, Rene,

Let's pretend for a moment that we're all on "Planet Betov" where
using statically linked library code is never done and all code reuse
is accomplished by "cut & paste".

In this dream world, here's what I see:

MASM: People can cut and past code from the MASM32 Library source
code.
FASM: People can cut and past code from the FASMLIB source code.
NASM: People can cut and past code from the ASMLIB source code
HLA: People can cut and past code from the HLA Standard Library.

RosAsm: ????

Even if we "level the playing field" and don't allow static linking of
libraries, as all these other assemblers support, where exactly is the
"RosAsm Library"? (Or snippets, or templates, or whatever else you
want to call it.)

You can put up smokescreens all day long about how static linking
isn't "true assembly", but in the end the bottom line is that all
these other assembly language development tools have lots of library
code, in source code form, and RosAsm has .... ????

So when can we expect to see a RosAsm source code collection
comparable to the four libraries mentioned above? Or, if you can't
handle that, at least a reasonable set of library routines that RosAsm
users *can* incorporate into their own projects?

hLater,
Randy Hyde

They are expected to search for reusable functions from the Rotty
sources.

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