From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   There is a fantastic new development - a public domain   
   8086 assembler written in C90:   
      
   https://github.com/robertapengelly/as86   
      
   And there is a matching ld86 at the same place.   
      
   I've been working with the author, Robert, on getting   
   it to handle my hand-written assembler.   
      
   It uses a.out format, which has a 16-bit flavor.   
      
   Because of that, I can't really make use of it yet   
   until I have SubC able to handle my code base,   
   but I am preparing for that time, and have been   
   revamping my handwritten assembler.   
      
   However, I came across this unusual assembler,   
   the use of "seg", and have provided a dummy   
   program below.   
      
   It occurs to me that the a.out format may not be able   
   to handle the concept of only getting the segment   
   part of an address, and that I should instead rewrite   
   my code to reference it as an external address, so   
   that the concept exists of a simple address reference.   
      
   Anyone know?   
      
   Thanks. Paul.   
      
      
      
   C:\devel\pdos\src>wasm test.asm   
   Open Watcom Assembler Version 1.6   
   Portions Copyright (c) 1992-2002 Sybase, Inc. All Rights Reserved.   
   Source code is available under the Sybase Open Watcom Public License.   
   See http://www.openwatcom.org/ for details.   
   test.asm: 15 lines, 0 warnings, 0 errors   
      
   C:\devel\pdos\src>wlink file test.obj form dos   
   Open Watcom Linker Version 1.6   
   Portions Copyright (c) 1985-2002 Sybase, Inc. All Rights Reserved.   
   Source code is available under the Sybase Open Watcom Public License.   
   See http://www.openwatcom.org/ for details.   
   loading object files   
   creating a DOS executable   
      
   C:\devel\pdos\src>type test.asm   
   .model large   
      
   .stack 1000h   
      
   .code   
      
   top:   
      
   mov cx, seg dummy   
      
   dummy:   
      
   ret   
      
   end top   
      
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