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Tim Roberts  
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 More options Jan 20 2010, 11:37 pm
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From: Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:37:15 -0800
Local: Wed, Jan 20 2010 11:37 pm
Subject: Re: Conditional compilation 32/64
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Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

>Some of the existing MASM documentation is so unbelievably bad it is hard to imagine how
>anyone could have approved it.  So I was hoping that the failure to find this was the more
>expected failure to document it.

MASM really is the poor stepchild.  Around 1992 or so, Microsoft actually
wrote reasonable documentation for MASM 6.0.  I still have (and cherish!)
that printed doc.  However, the assembler has changed rather significantly
at each major release since then (6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0), and as near as
I can tell, the documentation has never been updated.

Macros in MASM, for example, are a brand of magic just short of voodoo.  A
hundred years ago, I was an ace in COMPASS, the assembler for Control
Data's mainframe.  That was a well-crafted, well-documented, and sensible
assembler, with the best macro processor I've ever encountered.  I've
missed it ever since.

Microsoft does, after all, want us all to believe that assembler doesn't
exist.  It's almost enough to make me switch to one of the other
assemblers.  Although they don't have the official blessing, they do have
active developer communities who are documenting everything they add.
--
Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


 
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