From: nimbus@nospicedham.XXX.invalid   
      
   Bogdan (bogdro) wrote as news:594e3b87$0$647$65785112   
   @news.neostrada.pl:   
      
   Dzien' dobry !   
      
   >  I'm using NASM (or "nasm", to be compatible with the   
   authors' naming   
   > ;) ). It's free, Free (OSS), runs on Linux, and migration   
   from TASM   
   > was easy. Also can output in COFF for DJGPP/MinGW, if you're   
   on   
   > DOS/Windows.   
      
   Indeed, NASM was also Frank Kotler's suggestion, upthread.   
   I've dowlnloaded it (win32 version) - very cool and powerful   
   esp. with respect to all the various object formats it can   
   spit out! Impressive.   
      
   I tested the NASM + g77 combo on the example 'asmfl' which you   
   kindly provided (with helpful comments). On my windows XP 32-   
   bits installation, the example compiled and ran successfully   
   after making two minor modifications, which I am documenting   
   here, with comments for the sake of people who might search   
   the news groups archive, some time in the future.   
      
   *Mod 1. : For some reason, on this Windows platform, external   
   names imported by Fortran (g77) want to be ENCLOSED in _2_   
   underscores, thus '_sum_' in your here modified ASM example :   
      
   	; NASM - asm1fl.asm   
   	section .text use32   
   	global	_sum_   
      
   	_sum_:	; note two _underscores_   
      
   *Mod. 2 : The object format expected by g77 on the platform is   
   coff, not ELF, so I had to change the assembler command line   
   to :  'nasm -f coff asm1fl.asm' .   
      
   Modulo these minor adjustments (for the 2nd one I had to peek   
   at generated object files). BTW, my version of the Fortran   
   compiler that might not be up to date... but wtf, it WORKS ! :   
    [C:\F] g77 -v   
    g77 version 2.95 19990728 (release) (from FSF-g77 version   
   0.5.25 19990728 (release))   
      
      
   Thank you (and Frank) very much for setting me on my way with   
   Nasm and the very useful templates !   
      
      
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