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In article <75756@apple.apple.COM> tim@Apple.COM (Tim Olson) writes:
>In article <Dec.17.10.16.36.1992.17493@cadenza.rutgers.edu> masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
>
>|I've met a couple of people who have attempted to write assemblers for
>|RISC machines, who say that it's a difficult job. Can someone give me
>|an inkling as to why?
>
>From my experience, it's just the opposite.  RISC processors tend to
>have a few simple instruction formats, fixed fields, etc.  Also, with
>the limited number of addressing modes in RISC processors, parsing
>becomes almost trivial.
>


The problem is that the assembler writer apparently never knows when his
job is finished.....  :^)  He/she keeps writing, handling more special
cases, etc.  The final product IS a difficult project.  However, I would
prefer a simple assembler, not one that tries to "think" for me.  An 
example is the one from Cray Research.  It doesn't "get in the way" of
my bad (or good) coding practices.


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!Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences   !
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