🚀 go-pugleaf

Posted on 23 Dec 1992 at 10:53:26 by Gary Burchett <sasgxb@UNX.SAS.COM>

>I have seen postings about Don Higgins cross/370 assembler, but this
>is NOT what I am looking for.  His assembler apparently creates code
>to run on PC's.  I am looking for a cross/370 assembler that will run
>on any of several platforms (read this as portable and probably
>written in C) and for which the object code generated is IBM 370 or
>390 object and compatible with IBM object code files.

The documentation posted earlier makes it pretty clear that the Higgins
assembler does do what you want.  There is evidently a PC execution
facility as well, but the code generated is regular 370 code.  What
sense would it make to have a 370 assembler that generated anything
else ?  It's not terribly meaningful to accept 370 assembler statements
and generate (say) Intel 80x86 machine code from them.

This is reinforced by the reference to a conversion program for
producing MVS Linkage Editor format object files.

I don't have the Higgins assembler, so I can't comment on source
availability or language.  Perhaps it's written in 370 assembler :-)
Of course you could use the execution environment to run the real
IBM 370 assembler on a PC for that matter.

Tony Harminc