From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Kotler Subject: Re: hla Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:16:06 -0500 Message-ID: <441208B6.9070808@comcast.net> References: <20060310201855.23619.qmail@web31913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060310203259.GA7399@wintermute> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060310203259.GA7399@wintermute> Sender: linux-assembly-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org leslie.polzer@gmx.net wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:18:55PM -0800, Tim Hoolihan wrote: > >>I posted some info on my sight about hla, and was curious if anyone >>on here has tried it? I've used mainly gas and nasm, but this seems a >>convenient way to use them. > > HLA is an educational tool used in the book "The Art Of Assembly". > I don't think anyone uses it in serious production. What assemblers do folks use for "serious production"? While HLA *is* designed as an educational tool, it's pretty "powerful", and would be suitable for "serious production" if you wanted to. > Besides, IMHO it's quite ugly :D Well... beauty is in the eye of the beholder! I wholeheartedly agree, though! :) Regarding Tim's correction to the install doc: Good point! That's new - the last version wanted you to be in /usr. This one wants /. Best to check. I don't think Randy's got the "packaging" for Linux down pat. I add version numbers when I download 'em, for example... I haven't used HLA much. I don't crave the kind of "power" it offers, and... okay, it's ugly. Since it will produce code that will run on *either* Windows or Linux, I think it's an "interesting" tool/toy. It's the HLA Standard Library that allows it, of course. Ported to Windows and Linux, with more OSen planned. We can call the C library, of course, but some people might prefer a library written in asm (HLA, to be sure, but recognizably asm). Call it, or read it to find out how things might be done - I do more of the latter. :) Best, Frank