Large TASM 5.0 to MASM conversion

[pjsallday]

Hello all!
I have a large project that is being converted from borland to intel land and I am running into a lot of problems with using masm. There are a lot of difference with the two and I am having a hard time figuring out some of the "equivalents" in masm from tasm. Some examples are SMART and NOSMART, %NEWPAGE, error A2015: segment attributes cannot change : Alignment. There are just so darn many and to go through 40-50 asm files and figure these out will drive me crazy. :dazzled: I was wondering if you guys knew of a place to find a good conversion guide and somewhere to get a good amount of information. I have been looking here http://www.ousob.com/ng/masm/index.php and googling like crazy but can't seem to find a straight answer.

Thanks

[PBrennick]

I would advise you to read the TASM reference. Assembler specific commands such as %NEWPAGE can just be removed. All that one does is affect the listing (for printing) and is not really a part of the program. Bogdan is a good source for answers if you can catch him when he is not to busy. He is well versed in TASM.

Paul

[GregL]

pjsallday,

If you don't have a TASM reference you could use this. Paradigm Systems licensed TASM from Borland and called it Paradigm Assembler, it's identical to TASM 5.

Paradigm Assembler User's Guide

[PBrennick]

Greg,

Is that version of the TASM assembler in the public domain or is it pay-for-use?

Paul

[GregL]

Paul,

The Paradigm Assembler was included with Paradigm C++ which was a commercial compiler. I think they sold the assembler separately too.

The link I posted is just the documentation for the assembler. I got the link from the LZASM site.

I found it to be really useful when having to deal with TASM code.

[PBrennick]

Thanks Greg, I tend to collect different assemblers so was curious. I have a huge library of stuff and was willing to add to it. Not this time, though, I guess. BTW, I think we may run out of letters for different assemblers at some point!

Paul