> Now, I will have to disclose that I have not tried jwasm. There's no > reason > behind that except for laziness. Having learned nasm and finding it met > my > needs, I just didn't try jwasm because I didn't want to learn it. So, I > cannot compare nasm to it.
I can't really compare NASM to it either, because I never really did any serious programming effort in MASM/TASM/etc. However, it looks like JWASM provides a high degree of compatibility with MASM. Apparently it can already be used as a drop-in replacement for lots of existing code. This means that JWASM is essentially the best free MASM-syntax assembler. > Given my druthers, I would like to see nasm as the standard for the > project. Again, this is only for what is currently on SourceForge.net > and > maybe the base in the future, but that is a personal choice and not one > scientifically arrived at. I could be wrong. I never would do any assembler programming in any other assembler than NASM either, but a lot of other programmers still prefer MASM. To note one example, Japheth maintains the most recent EMM and HIMEM drivers for FreeDOS as well as the HDPMI DOS extender/DPMI server. (Not incidentally, he created/maintains JWASM too.) Regards, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
