Open Watcom Assembler
| Original author(s) | Open Watcom Assembler |
|---|---|
| Operating system | DOS for x86-based PCs, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux for x86-based PCs, OS/2 for x86-based PCs, FreeBSD for x86-based PCs. |
| Available in | English |
| Type | x86 assembler |
| Website |
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Open Watcom Assembler or WASM is an x86 assembler produced by Watcom and included as part of the Watcom C/C++ compiler.[1][2] Further development is being done on the 32- and 64-bit JWASM project,[3] which more closely matches the syntax of Microsoft's assembler.[4]
There are experimental assemblers for PowerPC, Alpha AXP, and MIPS.[5]
Technical details
Assembler
- Native support for output formats Intel OMF output formats
- Supports Intel x86 (Pentium MMX, Pentium III-4, 3DNow!, SSE and SSE2) instruction sets.
- Supports Microsoft macro assembler (MASM) 5 and 6 syntax (incomplete).[5]
Disassembler
There is an associated Watcom disassembler, wdis. The assembler does not have listing facilities; instead the use of wdis for generating listings is recommended.[6] wdis can read OMF, COFF and ELF object files and PE and ELF executables. It supports 16-bit and 32-bit x86 instruction set including MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, and SSE3. Support for PowerPC, Alpha AXP, MIPS, and SPARC V8 instruction sets is also built in.[7]
JWasm
It is a fork of Wasm by Japheth with following features:
- Native support for output formats Intel OMF (16/32-bit), MS Coff (32-bit and 64-bit), Elf (32-bit and 64-bit), Bin and DOS MZ.
- Precompiled JWasm binaries are available for DOS, Windows and Linux. For OS/2 and FreeBSD, makefiles are supplied.
- Supports Intel x86 (8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro), x86-64 instruction sets with SIMD (MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and SSSE3, SSE4.1/2 (since Jwasm), AVX (since JWasm 2.06), VMX (Intel VT-x; AMD SVM, the latter though already implemented, currently still inactive) extensions (since JWasm 2.09)).
- JWasm is written in C. The source is portable and has successfully been tested with Open Watcom, MS VC, GCC and more.
- On Windows, JWasm can be used with both Win32Inc and Masm32. Since v2.01, it will also work with Sven B. Schreiber's SBS WALK32 Win32 Assembly Language Kit[8]
- C header files can be converted to include files for JWasm with Japheth's own dedicated h2incX.
- JWasm's source code is released under the Sybase Open Watcom Public License, which allows free commercial and non-commercial use.
- Fully supports Microsoft macro assembler 6 syntax, all MASM 8 instructions sets.
Since January 2014, Japeth has ceased development of JWASM due to reasons with respect to personal life. However, others on the Masm32 forum have picked up further development, adding support for AVX2 and, in the near future, AVX-512.
References
- ↑ Randall Hyde. "WASM: The Open Watcom Assembler". Retrieved 2010-02-02.
- ↑ Leiterman, James (2005). "MASM vs. NASM vs. TASM vs. WASM". 32/64-bit 80x86 assembly language architecture. Wordware Publishing, Inc. p. 481. ISBN 978-1-59822-002-5. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
- ↑ JWASM project page
- ↑ Fog, Agner (2009), Optimizing subroutines in assembly language (2009-09-26 ed.), p. 13
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Open Watcom website: Assembler
- ↑ OpenWatcom: "No listing files are generated [by the assembler]. Producing full listings may be a waste of effort because wdis (the Open Watcom disassembler) does a very good job. However, it could be extremely helpful to produce a dump of the internal symbol table the way MASM does, especially for diagnostic purposes."
- ↑ Open Watcom website: Disassembler
- ↑ The 1996 "WALK32 consists of the following main components:
- A full-featured PE (Portable Executable) file linker called W32Link.
- A main include file, containing Win32 constant, type, and structure definitions.
- Another include file, containing the application and DLL startup source code.
- Segment and PE section management macros.
- Macros related to Unicode support.
- Several demo applications and DLL’s.
- A collection of programming utilities for various purposes." walk32.doc in walk32_1.zip
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