Feature Request Assemblercode

[dietergroppe]

It also very fine if the Program also give Asm-code and/or asm-structures as output.
Is this a planned feature ?

[dmcoles]

Hi. Thanks for getting in touch. It wasn't something I had really considered but sure. I will add that to that list of things to do

[dmcoles]

after some initial investigating this send much harder than I anticipated. The assembler includes do not include most of the reaction gadgets. I think this would be quite a big job to get this producing asm code. I think I'll put this on hold until a later version

[polluks]

At least assembler support for MUI was possible
http://aminet.net/package/dev/mui/MUIB_ASMGen11

[dmcoles]

looking at this they went to a lot of effort to port the mui include to assembler. So yes we could do the same for rebuild but its a lot of work to create the includes for all of the reaction gadgets. Its not something that is high on my list of things to do.

[Kamelitoloveless]

Isn't this something that should be provided by the NDK?

[polluks]

@Kamelitoloveless 2024: Who really needs a GUI in assembler?

[dmcoles]

I mean I was a die hard asm coder back in the day so I kinda get it but the ndk has only very minimal support for reaction in asm. The Amiga development community is only very small so it's more important than ever to prioritise the features we deliver to suit our audience. Adding asm story 6 would be a big job and probably not the most beneficial use of my time

[Hypexed]

I wonder if a hybrid approach could be used. Using an Eval() kind of way to produce code. What I mean is using a code generator to use E as a base, for example, then using the source generated to produce an ASM output. This would effectively be a kind of compiler. E-VO knows how to do this. It's somewhat out of scope embedding a compiler inside ReBuild, apart from the code generator included. So perhaps another program could be used in the build pipeline, where ReBuild could be used to compile a GUI into E (or C), then another program comes along and compiles that source into ASM. Not as integrated as with ReBuild itself but a possible solution.