t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP (Stephen Poole) (04/11/89)
I was dinking around with LSC 3.01 the other day and thought that I'd do some assembly hacking. Even with the limitations of inline assembly I found myself enjoying it greatly, and it took me back to PDP-11 assembly days. Does anyone have any recommendations for Mac assemblers? I'd like one that handles both 68020 and 68881. After dealing with Intel's Architecture from Hell and the 80x86 code generated by MS compilers all day I'd find it quite pleasurable to use MOVE instructions that have the operands in the right place and don't care about ES segment overrides... Thanks for all suggestions; I'll summarize to the net. -- -- Stephen D. Poole -- t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP -- Mac II Fanatic -- -- -- -- I'm just an Oregon Tech Software Engineering co-op at Micro- -- -- soft. Believe me, nobody here pays attention to my opinions! --
bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) (04/13/89)
<talking about assemblers> Good to know I'm not the only person still alive who enjoy's assembler. Excepting inline assemblers, the only two choices, really, are MDS assembler, and MPW assembler. Of these, MPW is by far the superior product. In terms of assemblers, it ranks up there with the best macro assemblers (such as VAX MACRO). In addition it comes with some really inspired macros which allow you to define procedures using standard HLL-type constructs; no more counting offsets on the stack. It's all taken care of for you. If you are at all serious about assembler for the Mac, this is the product to get. Bob Hablutzel Wildwood Software BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU Disclaimer: No, I don't want to re-open the assembler v HLL war. Thanks for offering, though.