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- From: clark@synergy.encinitas.ca.us (John Clark)
- Subject: Re: Help: Simple gas 68k Question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.011801.15551@synergy.encinitas.ca.us>
- Organization: Synergy Microsystems, Inc. CA. USA
- References: <1992Nov25.155539.4490@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:18:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov25.155539.4490@bmerh85.bnr.ca> psycho@brtpa25.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Paul Jezioranski) writes:
- +> I am attempting to assemble what I would call a "traditional" 68000
- +>assembly file using gas. It chokes immediately on the file. Such things as
- +>comments (";"), moves ("move.b"), and other things do not work. In the
- +>m68k.h file that comes with gas, "move.b" becomes "moveb".
-
- Gas does not conform to the Motorola standard opcode syntax. It is derived
- 'mit as', which is as old as the hills. Usually, I have resorted to writing
- translator from XYZ.AS to gas, which unfortunately requires some hand massaging
- to fully translate(well if I wrote a translator to do the whole thing I could
- have just as well written the binary code generator and been done with the
- whole mess.)
-
- The problem is excaberated if the 'source' is frequently updated and
- retranslation is required. Of course a 'Motorola' option to gas would fix a
-