On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 9:27 AM Paul Ruizendaal <pnr(a)planet.nl> wrote:
I am now writing code in assembly for the PDP-11.
I remember reading
somewhere that the output from "AS" (my caps) is a bit meagre. I can't
find
an option to produce a text listing. Is it
possible from AS, using
command
options (I can't see one) or perhaps from
"LD"?
Paul
*Paul Riley*
I had the same problem. As I was porting to a different mini I had to
write a new assembler. As you have undoubtedly seen, early ‘as’ was written
in assembler and not so easy to use as a base. Hence I used Richard’s
Miller’s AS for the Interdata as a base (available on Tuhs):
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=Interdata732/usr/source/as
Later I discovered that the TUHS archive has source code for the original
‘as’ rewritten in C, a work by Roger Jaeger:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/Mini-Unix/
Maybe adding a listing module to this version of ‘as’ is another possible
route.
There's also
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.11BSD/src/new/m11/macxrf.c
which
looks to be decent or better K&R code from a quick look, but I don't know
if it works, or if it would be easy to adopt to AT&T/Bell syntax which
decorates things less, making it a little harder to infer semantic meanings.
Also more digging shows the UNSW tapes / sources also are from Harvard. All
roads lead to Harvard for this it seems :)
Warner