RE: Cross-assembler : HLASM --> 8086

Ah portability, the ultimate panacea... I was involved in a project in
the past where we were told, oh don't worry, the product is portable, it
is written in "c". So I asked how long it would take to get it to run
on Windows (it was written for Solaris) and I was told, 6-8 weeks. I
said well, if it is "portable" shouldn't it just be a tweak of the make
file, and a re-compile? 10 weeks later, I looked at the code, and there
were almost as many #if defined(WIN32) #elseif defined(SOLARIS) than
lines of c code.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
JME Software LLC
NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.


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Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:31 PM
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Subject: Re: Cross-assembler : HLASM --> 8086

On Thu, 31 May 2007 13:38:16 +0100, Flint, Mike wrote:

Does anyone know of a product that will take HLASM source and produce
object or executables for the wintel platform?
...
The code is 'pure' HLASM (number-crunching, not accessing any MVS
services), so it shouldn't need to handle many environment issues (other
than passing parameters in, and getting the response out).

<HERESY>I sense a good argument here for writing
non-system-services-dependent code in a language more portable than
HLASM.</HERESY>

But, I suspect that for you it's water under the bridge. Others take
heed.

-- gil

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