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From: Michael Haardt <(michael)u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: Transputer ASM
Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 21:04:11 MET
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raman@kilowatt (Ramachandran Meenakshisundaram) writes:
>        I am a bit disappointed in that I wasn't able to get any responses
> for any transputer assemblers.  Before I posted the original message, I was 
> able to find one assembler in unix.hensa.ac.uk under transputer/linux called
> tas, tlk, and tld.  It seems to be an assembler for transputer minix. It 
> generates a.out files.

That is not quite correct.  tas, tlk and tld are the first version of my
transputer assembler and linker.  They were available as source code.
The major problem was that tld takes quite long to build binaries in
the order of 50k or more.  tld can generate Minix a.out format if you
want it to, otherwise it just generates a plain executable.

I rewrote the linker in the mean time which made it significantly
faster, and added some features to the assembler.  Those versions
currently only run under Transputer Minix, although of course you can
still generate plain binaries beside a.out format.

Since it was some work for me to write that code, and only one person
ever responded to my request to send a little money to help development
in case the software is used (and liked!), I concluded that nobody else
uses and likes it.  As a consequence, sources are no longer freely
available, and the binaries are for personal use only now.  The same
applies to my lcc back end used for the lcc binary.

as, ld, lcc, plus manuals, are included as binaries in a freely
available demo of Transputer Minix.  They were used to build themselves,
cpp, the library and a part of the included commands, so I consider them
to be stable.

I guess you will have to continue looking for "something better".  I
didn't find _anything_ two years ago.

Michael
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