NASM vs. FASM

[chris]

Would anybody be able to give me a quick bit of info on their differences, etc? Thanks.

[skjgb]

ee, the one has an f, while the other one a nee

[Therx]

Haven't used FASM but I know its smaller and easy to port but I think NASM probally has a better preprocessor etc.

Pete

[bubach]

fasm is very similair to nasm but it can compile itself and is not written in C.
and if you ever need a assembler to your(?) OS it?s easy to port fasm..
the diffrens between it is not that huge.. i heard that ashley4 (spelling?) ported his os to fasm with only three changed lines..

/ Christoffer

[Adek336]

(..)and is not written in C.

well that's quite a disadvantage. Main goals of an assembler should be stability and being free from bugs. It is much simpler to write complex projects in C than in assembler, it takes less time and is less bug-prone. That being said, having to choose from two unknown assemblers one written in C and the other in asm I would definitely choose the C one.

Cheers

[aidv]

why arent there any assemblers written in lisp ?!

[Schol-R-LEA]

Hold your horses, CodePoet. I can only do so many things at once.