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From: karlh@ico.ISC.COM (Karl Hanzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix & MASM
Summary: me too
Keywords: Xenix assembly, MASM
Message-ID: <9599@ico.ISC.COM>
Date: 19 Sep 88 23:19:48 GMT
References: <416@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: karlh@ico.UUCP (Karl Hanzel)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
Lines: 21

In article <416@marob.MASA.COM> samperi@marob.MASA.COM (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>It appears that the assembler that is supplied with SCO Xenix (386) cannot
>assemble code that is generated by the SCO Xenix C compiler. That is, code
>that is generated via "cc -S -c prog.c" will causes masm to generate error
>messages about the COMM directive, and some other messages about illegal
>ORG arguments, etc. The generated assembly code _will_ compile under
>MSDOS, using MASM 5.0+! Unfortunately, I don't think the object code file
>generated can be used under XENIX (?).
>
>Is there some information I'm missing here? Any tips will be greatly
>appreciated.

I've seen this with Microsoft Xenix-286 for my Intel System 310,...
using the 'as' assembler.  For one, the assembler uses '|' as a
delimeter for comments, whereas the compiler 'cc -S' produces ';'s.
But beyond that 'as' still doesn't work to produce valid dot-o's.  Ugh.
pax,
   Karl
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