Re: [cc65] Combining xasm/mads assembler with CC65

Hi!

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 06:50:03PM +0100, Jakub wrote:
> There is a large amount of good code written for xasm/mads
> assemblers for Atari (Raster Music Tracker, sprite libraries etc.).
> It would be great if I could combine it with CC65. Xasm and Mads are
> able to produce Atari xex files, while do not produce CC65's .o
> files.

> What would be the best way in your opinion to combine CC65 and other
> assembler? Mads assembler is an advanced one and ca65 is not able to
> pass through it.

I doubt that cc65 can be used with another assembler. For one, ca65 has
several features explicitly designed for use with cc65. Second, I'm adding
more features if necessary (.foreimport is an example). Every such change
would have to be tracked by the author of the other assembler.

Your best chance is probably to write some sort of converter. If you
categorize the features of the different assemblers ("cheap symbols",
"scopes", "relocatable code", ...), you may even be able to make this
converter usable for lots of different targets.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de
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