Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!ico!karlh 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 *----->