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From: brucef AT central DOT co DOT nz (Bruce Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Using AS as a standalone assembler
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 05:25:23 GMT
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Steven Ferry <beast AT thor DOT pla-net DOT net> wrote:

>At 05:53 PM 8/15/96 GMT, you wrote:
>>
>>I heard that you can use AS with DJGPP to make stand alone programs kind 
>>of like Turbo Assembler does. Only thing is ho would I be able to do this 
>>as I have tried and not had much luck.

>why would you want to use "as" as a stand alone assembler? my opinion but
>at&t asm is crap compared to tasm

I don't think the comparrison is a fair one, since Tasm is a product,
where as AT&T defines a standard.  Sure, Tasm is a stand-alone
assembler of the highest order, but if you compare the AT&T syntax
with the Intel style syntax, then I feel AT&T comes out ahead in
certain respects.  For example, explicitly defining the size of the
arguments as part of the opcode removes any doubt about the intended
size of the operands that you are wanting to working with.

To be honest, I have found it quite easy adapting to the AT&T style,
as it really is just a different way of doing the same old things :)

Regards, Bruce.