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
