Re: Assembly for 386 using gcc??

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From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1993 17:40

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100273.171@compuserve.COM (Philipp Marx) writes:

>I'm using the gcc utility version 2.4.1. (as ver. 2.2.1.) for a project 
>which includes an assembler file.
>Developping and target system is a INTEL386/486 based system.
>
>The gcc utility for compiling C-code runs very well. But I got a lot of 
>problems trying to use gcc for Assembly. 
>I named my file with the extension ".s" and ran gcc without any option.
>So I got a lot of errors. The assembler source file is written for the MASM 
>of Microsoft and so I had to eleminate all the statements like .MODEL , 
>.386 ...

gcc uses a different assembler with different assembler syntax.
It uses "gas", the GNU assembler.
Amoung other differences, I believe that the argument order is different
in gas syntax to that in MASM syntax.
It looks like you're out of luck.

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Fergus Henderson                     fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU

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