Re: [f-cpu] LSU or cache L0

[Yann Guidon <whygee@f-cpu.org>]

hi !

Michael Riepe wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:56:00PM -0700, Ben Franchuk wrote:
> > What is a Unix-style assembler?
> It uses a similar syntax (all pseudo-ops begin with a dot, e.g. .org
> or .fill), supports the usual segments (.text/.data/.bss) and so on.
> Output files are in relocatable format. They can't be executed directly,
> but are supposed to be linked/relocated with ld(1) first. It's pretty
> much like GNU as, in case you know that (part of the binutils package
> nowadays).

in short : the kind of asm that is not easy to read or write
and requires a handful of tools to make it work ;-)

i belong to the crowd of people who use(d) NASM and couldn't use anything
else afterwards, because it's so much more practical and readable than
(g)as or TASM/MASM. No loader, no linker, plain binary output
that doesn't require extra handling when you want to test an execution
unit in VHDL... (i don't imagine Michael willing to program an ELF
loader in VHDL :-P). Instead of segments, files are included (either
binary or source). And i have even "programmed" a EXE file header
(look at the contributors in the NASM package).

Maybe that, given the spec, it would be possible to write an ELF
header in asm syntax. Given a few symbolic and labelling capabilities,
such as what i have already programmed in ygasm, i don't see the problem
(unless ELF requires more sophisticated computations than just label
manipulations ?)

>  Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
WHYGEE
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