From: "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Free Assembler? [Was: Re: Memory amount and PMODE]
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:59:48
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> | > >While Turbo C 2.01 and Turbo C++ 1.01 are available, there is no free
> | > >TASM at Borland's site.  Is there a free TASM syntax compatible compiler
> | > >available?  If so, I'd be interested in seeing if CWSDPMI would build
> | > >and run properly with it ...
> | > 
> | > There's always Turbo C's inline asm (it worked in Turbo C++ 3, but I'm
> | > not sure if it made it into earlier versions).
> | 
> | Doesn't TC invoke the external assembler to assemble inline asm?
> 
> No, it doesn't need an external assembler AFAIK.

On TurboC 2.01 and TurboC++ 1.01 (which are the free versions) it always
invokes the external assembler if it encounters an asm{} block.

It does not need the assembler if you stick to the built in register
variables (_AX, _FLAGS, etc) and __emit/geninterrupt.

So, the problem still remains that I don't know of a free TASM compatible
assembler that allows anyone to build CWSDPMI.