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FASM macro for Japheth (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 04.03.2008, 17:59

> I know. FASM is great, DGPJJ is great, ... I'm used to buy everything
> what's advertised because I'm such a smart guy ...
You don't have to buy 'em, they're free. ;-) I understand that you prefer MSVC over DJGPP, but it's a much larger download, not open source, but I guess has better optimizations? (And Intel is reportedly even better, but AFAIK, only their Linux version is free for non-commercial use.)

I didn't say FASM was perfect, but it has a lot going for it. You of course are free to use whatever you want. It is not my intention to bombard you with "adverts". :-|

> IIRC I already asked, but cannot remember your response: did you ever
> write a non-trivial FASM program?

Does my tiny attrib clone count? LFN dir? If not (and probably not, oh well), then not really. I mostly write tiny utils for my own use, nothing fancy or ground-breaking, sorry to offend or disappoint you. :-|

> Because, IMO, someone who did that
> should be familiar with the "match" directive.
I'm only superficially aware of it since I've never majorly needed it. The simple "match =1, DEBUG { include 'only8086.inc' }" in the manual is the most I've ever used.

> It's a small tool which creates tiny modules for IMPHLP.LIB (contained in
> hxdev) by launching an assembler "several" (currently 1500) times.
Yikes! Certainly doing that will be much much faster in FASM. (Even YASM is a fair bit faster than NASM.)

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