On Dec 23, 2008, at 3:50 AM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> I find GNU Assembler one of the worst assembler.

The GNU assembler uses a basically common syntax for ALL of the CPU  
architectures supported, without making much (any?) effort to be  
compatible with the syntax defined by the the individual  
manufacturers.  So (for example) you have to translate any published  
app notes from the manufacturer syntax to the gnu syntax, especially  
with respect to order and formatting of operands (they do tend to  
retain opcode names, though you can lose automatic typing.)  It's  
pretty awful.

(actually, it's not TOO bad for simple RISC-like processors.  It gets  
worse with CISC-like cpus like x86.)

BillW

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