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Re: Free software that can't be compiled under Debian

On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

> Peter Anvin (SysLinux author) says he can't find good documentation on as86,
> and the only good debugger he has for SysLinux is the Turbo Debugger. He notes
> that SysLinux is very "hairy" due to size constraints, and that makes it more
> difficult to debug.
> 
> It would be nice to have as86 take the Turbo syntax. I think I've thrown out
> all of my old Turbo manuals, alas.

I haven't tried it myself, but it may be worth looking at the Netwide
Assembler Project (NASM):
   ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/asm/nasm-0.90.tar.gz
The main author, Simon Tatham, is a friend of mine here at Trinity, so I
can vouch for his competence.  The project, as I understand it, started up
simply because people thought there was a lack of a decent free assembler.

I think it uses a new syntax which, while being easy to understand, has
been redesigned from scratch.  My impression is that it's fairly easy to
port code to it, though.

Just a thought ...

Nikhil.

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Nikhil Nair
Trinity College, Cambridge, England
Tel.: +44 1223 368353
Email: nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk
       nnair@debian.org



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