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- From: mike_d@tfsquad.mn.org (mike diack)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Cross assemblers for Macs
- Message-ID: <Ds5wwB1w165w@tfsquad.mn.org>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 13:17:48 CST
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- One of those nasty things that those of us engineering types who own
- macs have to contend with is that we have to pay through the nose for
- development tools which the dos people get for nothing. (wimper wimper)
- I'm specifically thinking of X-assemblers for microprocessors/controllers
- Which Intel & Signetics happily give away for 8051 based devices, and
- Moto (who SHOULD, if anyone, support macs !!) dish out for 68HCwhatevers.
- Given that X-assemblers, at their most simple level, merely read a
- textfile, manipulate a symbol table, generate opcodes and output a S
- record or IntelHex file (with a bit of range checking and wombat
- detection thrown in if you're lucky), the only solution seems to be
- "roll your own" - not having a few spare months to do this, can anyone
- point me in the direction of any software components of frameworks that
- may make the task easier (I'm particularly interested in the NEC77P20 DSP
- chip, but anything would be useful)
- cheers
- Mike.
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