On Sunday, 16 November 2014 at 22:19:16 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
My view is of a "kind of" portable macro assembler, even MASM
and TASM were more feature rich back in the day.
Actually I remember reading a DDJ article about a Texas
Instruments Assembler that looked like C, just with one simple
expression per line.
So you could not do
a = b + c * 4;
rather
r0 = b
r1 = c
r1 *= 4
r0 += r1
Just an idea, I don't remember any longer how it actually was.
Not such a bad idea if you can blend it with regular assembly
mnemonics. When I did the course in machine near programming
university I believe I chose to do the exam in Motorola 68000
machine language because I found it no harder than C at the
time…(?) I surely would not have done the same with the x86
instruction set though.
