DOS ain't dead - 8086-NASM

8086-NASM (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 14.09.2010, 15:04

>
> I today got it to compile for an 8086 DOS target after stripping the
> supported instruction set down to 686 - both executables (NASM and NDISASM)
> appear to work, but NASM.EXE is a 460 KiB file which means that it barely
> runs at all and usually crashes if I try to assemble anything at all (at
> least I hope the crash is only due to running out of memory).

Hm, a crash because it runs out of memory is not an acceptable status.

The JWasm v2.04 8086-binary does better:

- it doesn't crash when it runs out of memory, but reports a fatal error
- the binary is only 320 kB large, leaving enough space to assemble small/medium sources.
- supports instructions up to SSE3

It's here: http://www.japheth.de/Download/JWasm/JWasm204brrc3.zip

Will be a hard job to make the 8086-NASM competitive.

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Complete thread:

NASM version 2.09 available - rr, 25.08.2010, 13:27 (Announce)
- NASM version 2.09 available - DOS386, 26.08.2010, 09:10
  - NASM version 2.09 available - ecm, 26.08.2010, 20:10
    - NASM version 2.09 available - DOS386, 27.08.2010, 03:16
    - NASM version 2.09 available - marcov, 27.08.2010, 17:10
      - NASM version 2.09 available - Rugxulo, 28.08.2010, 04:53
        NASM version 2.09 available - ecm, 30.08.2010, 21:40
        NASM version 2.09 available - Rugxulo, 03.09.2010, 05:51
        NASM version 2.09 available - Arjay, 03.09.2010, 13:14
        NASM version 2.09 available - ecm, 03.09.2010, 14:40
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - DOS386, 06.09.2010, 20:06
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Rugxulo, 06.09.2010, 22:27
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - DOS386, 06.09.2010, 22:37
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 18:19
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - ecm, 07.09.2010, 18:53
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 07:33
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - ecm, 07.09.2010, 16:22
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Rugxulo, 07.09.2010, 16:59
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 18:04
        NASM version 2.09 available | A86 - ecm, 07.09.2010, 19:15
        NASM version 2.09 available | A86 - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 19:58
        NASM version 2.09 available | A86 - ecm, 07.09.2010, 22:42
        NASM 2.09 available | A86 | FASM | Arjay's 8086+80386 PC's - DOS386, 08.09.2010, 01:05
        FASM and OMF - Japheth, 08.09.2010, 09:26
        16-bit DOS COBOL, 16-bit DOS PASCAL, 16-bit DOS C, 16-bit - DOS386, 08.09.2010, 19:40
        16-bit DOS COBOL, 16-bit DOS PASCAL, 16-bit DOS C, 16-bit - ecm, 08.09.2010, 19:45
        16-bit DOS COBOL, 16-bit DOS PASCAL, 16-bit DOS C, 16-bit - DOS386, 08.09.2010, 19:53
        FASM is copylefted - ecm, 08.09.2010, 20:02
        NASM - FASM - ecm, 08.09.2010, 15:09
        NASM 2.09 available | A86 | FASM | Arjay's 8086+80386 PC's - Arjay, 08.09.2010, 22:12
        NASM 2.09 available | A86 | FASM | Arjay's 8086+80386 PC's - DOS386, 11.09.2010, 01:23
        NASM - FASM license - ecm, 11.09.2010, 01:53
        NASM 2.09 available | A86 | FASM | Arjay's 8086+80386 PC's - Arjay, 13.09.2010, 13:31
        NASM version 2.09 available | A86 - Rugxulo, 08.09.2010, 06:56
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Rugxulo, 08.09.2010, 06:28
        NASM version 2.09 available | A86 and kernels - ecm, 07.09.2010, 18:42
        NASM version 2.09 available | A86 and kernels - Rugxulo, 08.09.2010, 06:49
        NASM version 2.09 available | A86 and kernels - ecm, 08.09.2010, 20:30
        NASM version 2.09 available | A86 and kernels - ecm, 11.09.2010, 12:27
        Debian/OW ... FASM - Rugxulo, 11.09.2010, 23:44
        Debian/OW ... FASM - ecm, 12.09.2010, 02:40
        Debian/OW ... FASM - Rugxulo, 12.09.2010, 04:18
        Debian/OW ... FASM - ecm, 12.09.2010, 14:29
        FASM's license - Rugxulo, 12.09.2010, 22:18
        FASM's license - ecm, 12.09.2010, 23:12
        FASM's license - Rugxulo, 13.09.2010, 01:49
        FASM's license - ecm, 13.09.2010, 14:13
        FASM's license - Rugxulo, 13.09.2010, 22:27
        FASM's license - ecm, 14.09.2010, 15:50
        FASM's license - Rugxulo, 15.09.2010, 23:29
        FASM's license - ecm, 16.09.2010, 00:03
        code density - Rugxulo, 16.09.2010, 21:10
        code density - ecm, 17.09.2010, 14:15
        code density - Rugxulo, 17.09.2010, 23:06
        code density - ecm, 18.09.2010, 02:18
        code density - Rugxulo, 19.09.2010, 20:23
        code density - ecm, 19.09.2010, 20:27
        this messy thread - DOS386, 13.10.2010, 04:17
        this messy thread - Rugxulo, 13.10.2010, 04:50
        this messy thread - ecm, 14.10.2010, 13:01
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - tom, 07.09.2010, 19:58
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Rugxulo, 08.09.2010, 06:58
        8086 is fairly useless - tom, 07.09.2010, 19:47
        8086 is fairly useless - ecm, 07.09.2010, 19:55
        NASM version 2.09 available | 8086 is COOOOL - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 07:26
        NASM version 2.09 available | NASM manual - ecm, 07.09.2010, 16:30
        NASM version 2.09 available - Rugxulo, 13.10.2010, 06:15
    - 8086-NASM - Japheth, 14.09.2010, 15:04
      - 8086-JWASM - ecm, 14.09.2010, 15:33