19 Feb
2026
19 Feb
'26
8:12 a.m.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026, Paul Flo Williams wrote:
I ask for a macro assembler because there are some
modifications I'd
like to make to the source file to clear things up. One of these would
be to cope with the fact that DEC decided that all of their jump tables
would have addresses in little-endian format, despite the 8051 being a
big-endian device. So, the normal "dw" directive is not going to work
for me, and I'll need to do something like:
Btw. the *best* macro assembler is asl from Alfred Arnold. I use it for
everything, and I have written several backends, e.g. IBM PALM, Dietz
MINCAL and Zuse Z43.
Christian