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to: Peter Hansen
from: Martin Pollard
date: 1994-06-30 17:12:42
subject: Watcom C v10

* Peter Hansen got everyone's attention by mumbling this to Martin Pollard:

 PH> [suggesting Borland's assembler may be the *ONLY* 32-bit assembler
 PH> available for OS/2]

 PH> WATCOM v10.0 includes an assembler called, surprisingly enough, WASM. 

Some surprise. :-)  That'll teach me to type before I look; WASM was in 10.0
LA, and I never even noticed it!

 PH> It is billed as "Microsoft compatible" and has command
line switches
 PH> and various options for generating 3/4/586 code and supports some
 PH> directives that have names like SEG32 and stuff like that.  Never
 PH> having had a true 32-bit assembler pointed out to me, I'll go out on a
 PH> limb and suggest that all this makes WASM a 32-bit assembler. :-)

I think you're fairly safe in that assumption. :-)

 PH> (Is there anything in particular to look for to ensure it's 32-bit?)

I wouldn't know, to be honest, as I don't do assembly.  I use it mainly for
recompiling commercial libraries that have assembly modules; otherwise, all
my programming is done in C.

                           -=[> Martin Pollard <]=-

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