fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer) (06/20/88)
Recently I looked for a good assembler package for the Atari ST but I couldn't
deceide which one I should buy.
Could any please give me some advise and maybe a little comparision what they
perform and cost ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated !
-Axel
What is now proved was once only imagined.
(William Blake - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)stevens@vms.macc.wisc.edu (PAul STevens-MACC) (06/21/88)
In article <1946@netmbx.UUCP>, fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer) writes... > >Could any please give me some advise and maybe a little comparision [ of assemblers ] I have used the Metacomco assembler for a rather large project over the last year. I have discovered no bugs or 'features' to work around. I have not given the linker any kind of workout as the 15 or so individually assembled modules contain *no* entry point or external references (to maintain position independence). stevens@vms.macc.wisc.edu stevens@wiscmacc.bitnet
jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters) (06/25/88)
In article <1946@netmbx.UUCP>, fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer) writes: > Recently I looked for a good assembler package for the Atari ST but I couldn't > deceide which one I should buy. > > Could any please give me some advise and maybe a little comparision what they > perform and cost ? > I would like to make a request for some information about the assembler that is included with the MWC package. I use MWC alot and would like to try some assembly. Is this much like the UNIX assembler. Is there a macro package like M4 available for it. I have quite a bit of samplers for a UNIX machine with a MC680X0 chip. It has always helped me to be able to look directly at samples while trying new stuff. (Yes I realize all hooks to the O.S. will be vastly different. When all else fails link in libc.a and use the standard functions. -- Johnnie --
leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) (07/02/88)
In article <431@sp7040.UUCP> jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters) writes: >In article <1946@netmbx.UUCP>, fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer) writes: >> Recently I looked for a good assembler package for the Atari ST but I couldn't >> deceide which one I should buy. >> >> Could any please give me some advise and maybe a little comparision what they >> perform and cost ? >> > > I would like to make a request for some information about the >assembler that is included with the MWC package. I use MWC alot and would >like to try some assembly. Is this much like the UNIX assembler. Is there >a macro package like M4 available for it. For the degree in which I need assembly the assembler that comes with the GST-C compiler (anyone use that??!?) is quite satisfactory. It should be possible to use macro's and the like with this assembler, but I have the feeling that this somehow has been disabled (found those assembler directives doing 'strings' on the program). I suppose because they (GST) sell the macro assembler also as a separate product (b.t.w. has anyone managed to 're-enable' macro's or is this not possible?). As for a macro package, most decent assemblers have their own macro handling stuff but M4 is a preprocessor, so if you want that functionality, you could write your own preprocessor to handle stuff (this is much easier than writing a general preprocessor which must be aware of C syntax, quoting etc). If you plan to buy a C compiler to have also an assembler, I wouldn't recommend GST-C. When I bought it two years ago, it couldn't handle floats and had only a poor subset of what a decent compiler should have. Leo.