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limited TASM support in WASM (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 28.05.2009, 22:01

> > Please report bug into OW contributors newsgroup.
>
> It should be mentioned that the TASM support is limited. Many TASM sources
> probably won't assemble without errors.
>
> So WASM is now partially Masm v5, partially Masm v6 and partially Tasm
> (IDEAL) compatible, and additionally has some features which are unique.

True, and it's much better than nothing!

> Big problem: it isn't documented which Masm/Tasm feature is implemented
> and which isn't. Even more, Wasm often silently accepts a syntax which it
> doesn't really understand, so you can't be sure that everything is fine
> when your source was compiled without errors.

That's nothing, I was messing with SolarASM yesterday, and I was scratching my head for an hour trying to figure out why it assembled my file without errors but produced 0-byte output!! And when I finally overcame that, turns out it didn't even support the instructions I wanted (alas).

Complete thread:

• TASM support in WASM - rr, 25.05.2009, 22:38 (Developers)
  • limited TASM support in WASM - Japheth, 28.05.2009, 08:09
    • limited TASM support in WASM - Rugxulo, 28.05.2009, 22:01