Re: assembly in *nix

From: August Derleth (see_at_sig.now)
Date: 01/18/04


Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 06:44:12 +0000 (UTC)

Randall Hyde wrote:

> "A.Cloos" <a.cloos@mail.dk> wrote in message
> news:4008be8b$0$295$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk...
>
>>Does anybody know if it is possible to assemble under Borlands TASM in
>
> IDEAL
>
>>mode under Linux.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>
> No.

Wrong.

Borland's products (at least the older ones) will work under dosemu,
which is a DOS emulator that works under x86 Linux (and no other
hardware architecture, but possibly other x86 OSes). Of course, the
object code won't be an ELF binary unless you roll your own header
information. (Which is very plausible. Look at how nasm macros can be
used to create the headers for Microsoft *.exe binaries.)

But running your assembler under emulation to produce binaries for the
system you're running the emulator on would be odd. Kind of a perverse
cross-assembly, 'cept different. :)

(How do I know Borland's development products will work under dosemu? I
run Turbo Pascal under dosemu, and the resulting executables work just
fine.)

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