From: amh15 AT cus DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (Alan Hart)
Subject: Re: your mail about assembler syntax
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (GNU C++)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 14:28:28 +0100 (BST)

> My desire to use familier i386 syntax to write assembler for my programs
> has pushed me into decideing to write a converter between intel 386 and 
> the form used by gas.  
> 
> Has anyone got any advice for me before I start on this, eg how do you think
> I should do it and can you forsee any pitfalls.
> 
> At the moment I am thinking about producing a hybrid assember format with
> standerd 386 instructions and gas style comments and structure (.data .text
> etc...) and write a source to source file converter that can be included in
> a make file as a pre-processor kind of stage.
> 
> any ideas anyone?

Well, if you can be bothered to learn one, you could use a text processing 
language like perl, awk, or yacc/lex. This would have the advantage of being
extremely quick to write, once you've figured out the basics of the language.
Gnu Gawk/Bison/Flex would be worth looking at.

Alan

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