Assembler waffle (was Re: [plug] LyX/LaT2eX vs Word: the verdict)

[Peter Wright]

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 03:54:41PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Christian wrote:
> > Restricting you to Windows 95 x86 boxes for an
> > introductory course on assembly language programming
> > might be appropriate
> 
> Not.
> 
> man gas
> 
> The first thing that they'd make you do on the Windows machine is
> include windows.h

... for an assembly program? *confused*

Although I haven't written any assembly for a loonng time, maybe x86
assembly has an #include directive now :).

> and then write two to five pages of crap to pacify
> Windows before anything advanced like "hello world" appears.
> 
> No thanks!

Well.... he did say "might". :-)


Pete the Occasionally Witty If You're Lucky.

PS. I thought nasm was supposed to be a considerably superior
assembler to gas... I recall reading a Linux Journal article on
assembly programming a while back which strongly recommended it.
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