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Ugliest ASM source code ever?! (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 02.11.2018, 15:13

> An x86 assembler in 7,777 bytes is not bad.

True, although I've not tested that one (yet?).

But that reminds me of the one by Venkat Iyer (actually smaller, barely, ~7200 bytes):

* https://github.com/catb0t/x86-s
* https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/asm/venksi/

IIRC, the LF ending fix (not in a full, newer release) was requested by Fabrice Bellard for his JSLinux since he included it there (for obscure reasons). I'm sure Arjay can tell us more.

I don't have tons of experience with it, only wrote (ported?) like two extremely simple utils to it, for fun. It, too, is a bit quirky in syntax, but it does work! (It can also assemble itself, so that's good.)

Complete thread:

• Ugliest ASM source code ever?! - rr, 07.04.2018, 17:09
  • Ugliest ASM source code ever?! - RayeR, 08.04.2018, 19:02
    • Ugliest ASM source code ever?! - RayeR, 08.04.2018, 19:03
  • Ugliest ASM source code ever?! - rr, 30.10.2018, 12:10
  • Ugliest ASM source code ever?! - rr, 30.10.2018, 12:11
    • Ugliest ASM source code ever?! - Rugxulo, 02.11.2018, 15:13
      • BatAs -- 8086 assembler written in MSDOS batch - Rugxulo, 14.01.2019, 19:12