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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@floss.social replied · last month

Pure assembly syntax actually is trivial to parse and convert.

It's the directives, macros, and expressions that aren't.

@jani@floss.social replied · last month

@cstanhope It's not like I have a huge code base I couldn't quickly convert and continue with GNU as.

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 |.

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