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Date: Sun 04-Oct-1991 13:44:52 From: JTRQC@CUNYVM.BITNET Subject: Where can I get an Assembler for my NeXT? Does anybody know if there is an Assembler for the NeXT that can compile 680x0 code ??? also are there kernal routines that can be activated from assembler????? Why didn't the people at NeXT give out a fully functional macro assembler????? I love programming in obj-c etc...but I would really like to get down into the assembler part of the NeXT.. James T. Romano
Date: Sun 04-Oct-1991 16:31:48 From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) Subject: Re: Where can I get an Assembler for my NeXT? It's already there. If you cc a .s file, cc will assemble it (actually call the assembler, as). To see how to write assembler code that will work, us the -S option of cc on some C code, and it will output a .s assembler file instead of an object file. Mark Adler madler@tybalt.caltech.edu
Date: Sun 05-Oct-1991 01:28:20 From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: Where can I get an Assembler for my NeXT? In article <91277.094452JTRQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <JTRQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes: >Why didn't the people at NeXT give out a fully functional >macro assembler????? I love programming in obj-c etc...but I would >really like to get down into the assembler part of the NeXT.. Why would you want to do that? If you want to learn to program in assembly, fine, that's a valid reason (although there are other ways. Such as getting SPIM, the MIPS simulator, or one of the other similar utilities out there). If you think you can get better performance, don't bet on it. gcc is rather good (not remarkably good, but rather good). In addition, it includes one of the most powerful inline-assembly abilities I've ever seen.
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