From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) Subject: Re: Assembler help needed. Real bad like. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:10:33 GMT
cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) writes:
>1) I'm using as86 because it uses the mnemonics which I like
>and am used to (Intel 8086). Should I use the slightly weird
>gas instead? How can I learn how to use it? Where are the
Erm, depends...You'll need to do a lot of adjustment, since gas
uses AT&T assembler format instead of intel format...
ie. you do MOV 1,%eax instead of MOV AX,1 ...Damn annoying !
They taught us this first semester this year, on 386's running
ESIX (silly)...then I decided to try using my "experience" (ha)
in DOS...took a while to get used to Intel format again...8-(
Enjoy !
Cos !
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