Does anybody have an assembler in C?

I'm trying to set up a cross-development environment for 2.11BSD (running under 4.4BSD), and I've run into trouble because the assembler's written in, well, assembler. It would be Real Convenient if I could find an assembler written in C. Does anybody know of one? Greg Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA17387 for pups-liszt; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 02:40:44 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au: major set sender to owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f Received: from math.uwaterloo.ca (math.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.216.42]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA17375 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>au>; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 02:39:46 +1100 (EST) Received: (from kcwellsc@localhost) by math.uwaterloo.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA26566; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:29:27 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Wellsch <kcwellsc(a)math.uwaterloo.ca> Message-Id: <199803111529.KAA26566(a)math.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Does anybody have an assembler in C? To: grog(a)lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:29:23 -0500 (EST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au In-Reply-To: <19980311163735.37825(a)freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 11, 98 04:37:35 pm Organization: University of Waterloo, Math Faculty Computing Facility X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk Tim Shoppa I believe is familiar with the "chip" or "sunchip" tar bundle that contained a PDP-11 C compiler, assembler and loader. I could swear the assember was in C - I am sure because I recall fighting with all the code to port it a long time ago to another UNIX box. Now I was the jerk that kept saying "gee that C compiler sure looks a lot like the V6/V7 C compiler" (yeah I know they are different - I never bothered to go into the details of precisely which one it matched more closely). If Tim does not still have the contents I know I've got it archived away and can fetch that part for you. -- Ken | From owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Wed Mar 11 01:16:07 1998 | | I'm trying to set up a cross-development environment for 2.11BSD | (running under 4.4BSD), and I've run into trouble because the | assembler's written in, well, assembler. It would be Real Convenient | if I could find an assembler written in C. Does anybody know of one? | | Greg Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA17547 for pups-liszt; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 03:36:44 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au: major set sender to owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f Received: from alph02.triumf.ca (alph02.Triumf.CA [142.90.114.18]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA17541 for <pups(a)minnie.CS.ADFA.OZ.AU>AU>; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 03:36:37 +1100 (EST) Received: by alph02.triumf.ca; id AA08101; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:36:33 -0800 From: Tim Shoppa <shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca> Message-Id: <9803111636.AA08101(a)alph02.triumf.ca> Subject: Re: Does anybody have an assembler in C? To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:36:33 -0800 (PST) Cc: shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca In-Reply-To: <199803111529.KAA26566(a)math.uwaterloo.ca> from "Ken Wellsch" at Mar 11, 98 10:29:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk Vaguely. I'll try to track down the exact reference - I'm not sure whether your referring to the DECUS C package or not. I seem to recall that the DECUS C compiler is written in MACRO-11 assembly - and pretty much a straight translation of the V6/V7 C compiler - but with different run time libraries for RSX and RT-11. Does this ring a bell? Or am I completely on the wrong track? Tim. Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA18056 for pups-liszt; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:21:10 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au: major set sender to owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f Received: from alph02.triumf.ca (alph02.Triumf.CA [142.90.114.18]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA18051 for <pups(a)minnie.CS.ADFA.OZ.AU>AU>; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:21:04 +1100 (EST) Received: by alph02.triumf.ca; id AA19967; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:21:01 -0800 From: Tim Shoppa <shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca> Message-Id: <9803111821.AA19967(a)alph02.triumf.ca> Subject: Re: Does anybody have an assembler in C? To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:21:00 -0800 (PST) Cc: shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca In-Reply-To: <9803111636.AA08101(a)alph02.triumf.ca> from "Tim Shoppa" at Mar 11, 98 08:36:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk Taking a quick look at the DECUS C package, I see that isn't the answer. There's an "as"-style assembler there written in MACRO-11, though :-). I think you were referring to the XINU-11 package available by anonymous ftp from sunsite: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/xinu in particular, if you look in ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/xinu/ unpacked/src/cmd/as11 you'll find the "as11" sources in C, specifically written for BSD4.3 on a VAX. I have to admit that I'm not fully aware of the copyrights regarding the XINU package. If research shows that this is freely distributable, is this something we'd want to distribute through the PUPS archive, Warren? Tim. (shoppa(a)triumf.ca) Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA18071 for pups-liszt; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:23:08 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au: major set sender to owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f Received: from math.uwaterloo.ca (kcwellsc(a)math.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.216.42]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA18066 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>au>; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:23:02 +1100 (EST) Received: (from kcwellsc@localhost) by math.uwaterloo.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA31588; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:22:47 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Wellsch <kcwellsc(a)math.uwaterloo.ca> Message-Id: <199803111822.NAA31588(a)math.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: Does anybody have an assembler in C? To: shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca (Tim Shoppa) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:22:47 -0500 (EST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au In-Reply-To: <9803111636.AA08101(a)alph02.triumf.ca> from "Tim Shoppa" at Mar 11, 98 08:36:33 am Organization: University of Waterloo, Math Faculty Computing Facility X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk Tim, No, the DECUS C compiler is a very different kettle of fish. Sorry to be so vague - I can only go by memory now as all my archived info is on CD-ROM's at home. Back in the mid to late 80's a few folks made available a bundle put together by the folks at Purdue I think - I believe it was related to Dr. Comer (sp?) and the Xinu stuff - but this bundle was intended to provide a compiler environment on SunOS systems of the mid 80's to teach lower level system stuff - I've forgotten if it related to simulating an 11 or was instead just for a cross-compiler environment to build Xinu mini-kernels on faster platforms to then download to the LSI 11 testbed. One place I picked it up (via FTP) called it "sunchip.tar.Z" or similar, while another I think just called it "chip.tar.Z." I mentioned you only because I do remember grabbing it from your sunsite archive while you were still at Caltech and later sending e-mail WRT the licensing thing. -- Ken | From owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Wed Mar 11 11:45:28 1998 | | > Tim Shoppa I believe is familiar with the "chip" or "sunchip" tar bundle | > that contained a PDP-11 C compiler, assembler and loader. | | Vaguely. I'll try to track down the exact reference - I'm not | sure whether your referring to the DECUS C package or not. | | > code to port it a long time ago to another UNIX box. Now I was the jerk | > that kept saying "gee that C compiler sure looks a lot like the V6/V7 | > C compiler" (yeah I know they are different - I never bothered to go into | > the details of precisely which one it matched more closely). | | I seem to recall that the DECUS C compiler is written in MACRO-11 assembly - | and pretty much a straight translation of the V6/V7 C compiler - but | with different run time libraries for RSX and RT-11. Does | this ring a bell? Or am I completely on the wrong track? | | Tim. Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA18738 for pups-liszt; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 08:24:26 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au: major set sender to owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f Received: from alph02.triumf.ca (alph02.Triumf.CA [142.90.114.18]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA18731 for <pups(a)minnie.CS.ADFA.OZ.AU>AU>; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 08:24:19 +1100 (EST) Received: by alph02.triumf.ca; id AA18417; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:24:06 -0800 Received: by alph02.triumf.ca; id AA18211; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:23:49 -0800 Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA16016 for shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:25:03 +1100 (EST) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.CS.ADFA.OZ.AU> Message-Id: <199803112025.HAA16016(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Subject: Re: Does anybody have an assembler in C? To: shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca (Tim Shoppa) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:25:03 +1100 (EST) In-Reply-To: <9803111821.AA19967(a)alph02.triumf.ca> from Tim Shoppa at "Mar 11, 98 10:21:00 am" Reply-To: wkt(a)CS.ADFA.OZ.AU X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk In article by Tim Shoppa: Xinu is freely distributable, as long as it's not sold as a competing product to Doug Comer's book. It's in the archive. Another solution for a assembler in C is some stuff I've got from a Russian, who `ported' either cc or pcc to a Sparc, as a cross-compiler. Greg, have a look in .miscfiles. If someone can make some order out of this, I'll put it in the archive. To the PUPS readers, there is a whole lot of stuff I've got but I haven't added into the PUPS ARchive as yet: + System V (SCO license doesn't include it) + copyright stuff I haven't cleared it's release yet + unsorted jumble Someone has to categorise this I could put the unsorted jumble into the PUPS Archive. Yes or no? P.S Woke up to a barrage of email today. Wading thru it.... Warren