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From: "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT nohavenot DOT cmm>
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 22.3 and Vista
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"Rugxulo" <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message
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On Apr 9, 4:47 pm, DJ Delorie <d DOT  DOT  DOT  AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> > > P.S. In fact, to come completely clean with yet another (horrible /
> > > crazy) idea, why not include Freemacs in GNU Emacs as well? Hey, it's
> > > GPL, it runs on 8086s, and it's smaller than even one single
> > > Changelog! (Okay, obviously RMS would complain that it uses TASM, but
> > > hey, that can be fixed if really desired.) No, I don't honestly expect
> > > this to happen, but it's not really that bad an idea, is it??
> >
> > /me wonders if it could be modified to build with djasm...
>
> Of course. Even though DJASM misses a few opcodes, as long as you can
> emit raw bytes, it should work. Heck, GAS supports 16-bit now (and
> obviously NASM works too). And technically it could support building
> with all of them, why not? (Then again, to put it mildly, TASM code is
> pretty TASM-specific, but hey, that's what disassemblers are
> for!)    :-)

Well, it seems the ta2as program by Frank van Dijk converts all but one of
the FreeDOS Freemacs assembly files from TASM syntax to AT&T syntax (or
GAS).  I'm not sure if that helps for DJASM...

http://egle.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/convert/ta2asv08.zip


Rod Pemberton