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Date: Sun, 22-Jul-84 13:32:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: unmvax.377
Posted: Sun Jul 22 13:32:14 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 00:07:26 EDT
Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Wow! Got a lot of response for my grungy assembler. I have posted it to
net.sources in three pieces. The first is the assembler itself. There
is a rather rudimentary linker also. The second is the documentation,
originally written for an imagen. Shouldn't take much to get it to go
elsewhere. The third is a few test programs.

Now for a mess of disclaimers: I don't care what you do with
it. If you want to give it away, go right ahead. Please don't sell it though.
Hack it or chuck it, makes no difference to me. I tried to write it
portably. Shouldn't be too hard to move around. There are known bugs.
Unfortunately, I don't know them as this other person playing with it
didn't feel like telling me about them. It is painfully slow; I wrote
it for a class project and the size of code we were worried about
compiling was pretty small so this was acceptable to us. The algorithms
and data structures are a bit funny and not too optimal. This was my first
ever attempt at an assembler (never wrote a compiler either) so forgive me,
please. I hope that you can find it useful.

There is another version (that other persons) that has a lot of bugfixes and
puts out a listing at assembly time. It probably will only run on a VAX though.
So, I decided to post this one. If there is enough interest I will post that
one too.

Last thing, when you make bugfixes or/and extensions please send me a copy.
Maybe this'll turn into something decent.

-- 
			--Lee (Ward)
			{ucbvax,convex,gatech,pur-ee}!unmvax!lee