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Article #42965Re: TASM vs MASM (Summary)
From: David Hinds
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1990 00:38
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1990 00:38
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In article <478@nrcvax.NRC.COM>, rick@NRC.COM (Rick Wagner) writes:
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> Just out of curiosity, do many of you use the TASM "IDEAL" mode? I
> looked it over when I first got TASM; I liked the strong type
> checking, and the better structure definitions (the ability to use the
> same symbol in multiple structures! At last :) !). But I really
> dislike the way you have to bracket memory references...
I guess I never got used to the strange and strongly error-inducing
distinction between "variables" and "labels" in normal 80x86 assembly
language. In Ideal mode, you have to type some extra brackets, but I
find it easier to figure out what is going on, and easier to tell the
assembler exactly what I want it to do.
-David Hinds
dhinds@portia.stanford.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!decwrl!shelby!portia!dhinds From: dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: TASM vs MASM (Summary) Message-ID: <9495@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 24 Feb 90 00:38:42 GMT References: <25E362E8.4236@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <478@nrcvax.NRC.COM> Sender: David Hinds <dhinds@portia.stanford.edu> Organization: Stanford University Lines: 16