DOS ain't dead - [] issues - FASM riddle waiting to be solved

[] issues - FASM riddle waiting to be solved (DOSX)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 27.02.2008, 19:05

> > Thanks! But then, I have no problem with FASM because I don't use it
> (IMO
> > only MASM and NASM are generally usable tools in professional quality).
>

I'm not sure what you'd call professional quality. Maybe you mean "supporting all Win32 paradigms easily". That's probably one advantage to MASM. But NASM and FASM are plenty good if you don't rely too much on structs, macros, and other stuff. (You are of course free to use such, but remember that assembly itself does not include it. Only certain assemblers decide to support that. They are going "beyond the call of duty", so I don't consider FASM less for it. FASM and NASM (w/ NASMX) are both fully able to write Win32 programs.

> ACK. MASM is closed source but of very good quality. NASM is of fair
> quality, but it's multi platform and open source. FASM is small and fast,
> but closed source. If Tomasz ever decides to stop his project, it's gone.

They all have bugs. But people do use them all. So I guess they're all somewhat working. (Depends on needs and skill, I guess.)

And yes, FASM is open source (BSD-ish license, I think). Its all included in any FASM download. I mean, FASM can run on 9 OSes, at least (e.g. OctaOS), which also has the complete source. If it wasn't open source, would I be able to post this?

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