assembler for original 8086

Wed Jul 16 14:29:00 GMT 2003

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Aidan Delaney wrote:
> 	Apologies for the n00b question. I've just inherited an 8086 development 

An 8086 development board?  Wow!

> board, and am looking for a suitable as.  I've read the gas manpage and the 
> binutils configure script.  It does not seem that gas supports the original 
> 8086.  Did gas ever support this venerable chip?  Does anyone know of another 
> (Free Software) assembler that supports the 8086?  Please reply offlist.

gas surely must support the 8086.  *You* just have to choose not to use
instructions available only on later processors.  The linux kernel uses
gas for its bootup code.

Maybe you also want to look at NASM?  http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasm/

Do you want gas to output foo.obj files instead of ELF?  I don't know if
bfd supports that format...

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