On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 9:27 AM Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl> wrote:

> I am now writing code in assembly for the PDP-11. I remember reading
> somewhere that the output from "AS" (my caps) is a bit meagre. I can't find
> an option to produce a text listing. Is it possible from AS, using command
> options (I can't see one)  or perhaps from "LD"?
>
> Paul
>
> *Paul Riley*

I had the same problem. As I was porting to a different mini I had to write a new assembler. As you have undoubtedly seen, early ‘as’ was written in assembler and not so easy to use as a base. Hence I used Richard’s Miller’s AS for the Interdata as a base (available on Tuhs):
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=Interdata732/usr/source/as

Later I discovered that the TUHS archive has source code for the original ‘as’ rewritten in C, a work by Roger Jaeger:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/Mini-Unix/

Maybe adding a listing module to this version of ‘as’ is another possible route.

There's also https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.11BSD/src/new/m11/macxrf.c which looks to be decent or better K&R code from a quick look, but I don't know if it works, or if it would be easy to adopt to AT&T/Bell syntax which decorates things less, making it a little harder to infer semantic meanings.

Also more digging shows the UNSW tapes / sources also are from Harvard. All roads lead to Harvard for this it seems :) 

Warner