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RE: Writing an assembler

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Feb 21, 2007
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mic _ wrote:
> Once you've finished the assembler part, have fun writing the linker. That 
> is, if you plan to generate Windows executables (PE) and not just .com files
> 
> or something like that. I wrote one (in Euphoria) a few years ago and iirc 
> it got pretty ugly ...

After developing the assembler, AES drafted me into fixing
some bugs in their extremely complicated home-brew linker, 
written by a couple of other guys. Conceptually a linker
is much simpler than an assembler, but I always recall the
comment that I ran into, when I had to fix something in 
the Logical Section Handler...
       
     /* Welcome to the Logical Section Handler.
        Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here. */

I later learned that "Abandon Hope..." was the inscription
at the gates of Hell, according to Dante's Divine Comedy.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com