DOS ain't dead - MSA assembler released under MIT

MSA assembler released under MIT (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 15.11.2019, 03:24

> > > Robert Östling release MSA assembler under MIT-license.
> > > https://github.com/robertostling/msa
>
> This is not new assembler - 2000-2001.
> Robert make (re)release with modern license.

I see you've changed build methods (makefile) and compiler (wcl), and this is admittedly old code, so my remarks may be obvious or redundant.

Just FYI:

> bcc -Z -C -1 -O -mt -Id:\lang\bc\include -Ld:\lang\bc\lib msa.c
> exe2bin msa.exe msa.com
> del msa.exe

1). The "-I" and "-L" options should always only be in TURBOC.CFG (as created by the installer).

2). "exe2bin" isn't needed, use "-mt -lt" (since TLINK supports .COM directly).

I did try using it a bit, but it lacked some output size optimizations and had other quirks. I haven't looked much beyond that. (Most code doesn't demand it, but it's harder to verify precisely, compared to others.)

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MSA assembler released under MIT - DosWorld, 10.11.2019, 13:44 (Announce)
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