Ken's (?) Plan 9 assemblers are well known for their idiosyncratic syntax, placing identical behaviour across platforms over a sense of resemblance to people used to normal assemblers. While I am aware of Rob's talk [1] on the basic design ideas and have read both the Plan 9 [2] and Go [3] assembler manuals, many aspects of the design (such as the strange way to specify static data) are unclear and seem poorly documented. Is there some document or other piece of information I can read on the history of these assemblers? Or maybe someone recalls more bits about these details? Yours, Robert Clausecker [1]: https://talks.golang.org/2016/asm.slide [2]: https://9p.io/sys/doc/asm.html [3]: https://golang.org/doc/asm -- () ascii ribbon campaign - for an 8-bit clean world /\ - against html email - against proprietary attachments