ASxxxx Cross Assemblers

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I like the plain HTML in early-90s styling - very simple and functional. That is a lot of different architectures... but x86 is not included.

Also noticed that the complete package is 24MB+ because it contains not only the source but the binaries for all the assemblers compiled with all the compilers they used: cygwin, djgpp, linux, symantec, turboc30, vc6, vs05, vs10, vs13, watcom. I'm not sure what the point of doing this is (since the platforms are DOS, Linux, and Windows), besides as a comparison: cygwin appears to make the smallest executables, while vs13's is over 2x bigger.

cygwin using the options they used

while vs13's, using the optio s they used

FTFY. Not saying I know options for VS to produce small bins, nor that there isn't a trend. Just a friendly reminder that there's more to a benchmark than this keen observation had allowed

I've recently been working on an assembler that has ASxxxx syntax compatability, but doesn't keep any of the other choices ASxxxx has made. It has definitely not aged well.

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