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sasm (Announce)

posted by kerravon , Sydney, Free World South, 13.05.2025, 02:51

There is a new *86* assembler available - sasm -
from Robert Pengelly.

It originates from here:

git clone https://git.candlhat.org/sasm.git

And I include source and a win32 executable on
the PDOS/386 hard disk image at https://pdos.org

So far I am only using it to compile a small
amount of x64 code (x64supa.asm in pdpclib).

I don't know how capable it is on other platforms
(ie 16-bit and 32-bit).

My understanding is that it is designed to replace this:

git clone https://github.com/robertapengelly/as86.git

which I believe is no longer maintained except for bug fixes.

I still use as86 for some 16-bit assembler.

Both as86 and sasm support a subset of MASM.

ie if you write your assembler to what sasm supports,
you can switch to using masm (ml/ml64) if you wish.

Both as86 and sasm are public domain C90 source code too,
which is important to me/my goals.

It's still being actively worked on, so if there is an
important feature you need, you may be able to request
it or contribute it.

Complete thread:

• sasm - kerravon, 13.05.2025, 02:51 (Announce)