Re: [9fans] flatassembler on Plan 9?

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk>]

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not counting /sys/src/9/pc/*.root.s, the assembly code in the system including libraries is perhaps
1500 to 2000 lines (mostly little hand-optimised functions in the libraries, and chunks of code
for the machine-level support for bootstrap and kernel).  so that seems a waste of time to change.
a real-mode assembler would indeed be easier than the #defines for the few dozen lines of
code that needs them but otherwise, not.  and if, as i understand it, the assembler is itself
written in assembler, that seems rather unattractive here.

just my own feelings about it.

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From: hooh pxw <electrorb@yahoo.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] flatassembler on Plan 9?
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:28:21 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20030916112821.99028.qmail@web40405.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi,

Let me introduce fasm to you.

 The flat assembler is a fast and efficient *self-assembling* 80x86 assembler for DOS, Windows
and Linux and Menuetos. It supports all 8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and
3DNow! extensions, can produce output in binary, MZ, PE or COFF format. Has the advanced but
easy to use macroinstruction support and does multiple quick passes to optimize the code for
size. It is self-compilable and the full source code is included.
http://flatassembler.net/
http://menuetos.org

So is there possibility flatassembler on Plan 9?

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