ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP (06/06/87)
I'm thinking about porting Minix to the 65816, so I am looking for a the most
helpful (bug-free) 65816 assembler programming book and C compiler I can find.
The Red-and-Black book (McGraw-Hill?) is tempting because it has tables
comparing instructions and adressing modes with the other '6ers'
(6502,6800,6809,68000) [I'd really appreciate comparisons with the 8088,
since that's what Minix uses, and the 65816 seems similar in terms of basic
architecture. (8 bit data, 16 bit address, 8 bit 'bank' register)]
The White and Blue/Green book (by Fisher?) looks like it is better written
though, and since I'm still an assembler novice it would be helpful.
Does anyone who already has both have any comments?
65816 C compiler recommendations would be welcome as well, I don't care much
whether it runs under APW, but it needs to be decoupled from the assembler
It would be nice if it understood about putting code (text segment) in one
64K bank, stack in another, and data segment in another.
[Apple Pascal sort of does this on the //e, the p-code interpreter reads code
from one bank and data from the other.]
So, who sells (or gives away) 65816 C compiler/assembler combos?
(Apple, Applied Enginerring, Checkmate Technologies, and Micro Magic come to
mind.)
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