I wanted to find a small niche hobby coding project that approximately nobody would care about.
I'm tooting about it now, and I don't expect you to care.
I want to use m68k-linux-gnu-as cross-assembler, but it doesn't support the Motorola syntax the original Amiga tools did.
How hard can it be to write a preprocessor that converts vasm mot syntax module compatible assembly to GNU as?!
Turns out, less trivial than I thought.
@jani I had to do something similar once when when a company I worked for moved from a commercial cross compiler to GCC. Instead of trying to convert by hand all the assembly we had, I wrote a gawk script to do it. It may have taken me just as long to do the job from start to finish, but at least I wasn't bored the whole time. 😆
But I actually want to keep using the mot syntax, if only for nostalgia.
For example, registers can be referenced as d0 instead of %d0, and comments start with ; instead of |.
Pure assembly syntax actually is trivial to parse and convert.
It's the directives, macros, and expressions that aren't.
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