[fpc-devel] FPC and Windows Phone 8

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 03/10/2014 03:03 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 10.03.2014 13:52, schrieb Vsevolod Alekseyev:
>
>> I don't now remember the exact history behind each
>> replacement, but here they are.
>>
>>   - DGROUP is a problem; I comment it out
>>   - So is ASSUME
>>   - The syntax of SEGMENT is different
>>   - Instead of .386p I want .686p
>>   - Instead of _CODE I want _TEXT
> The first three might be bugs in the assembler writer...
These sound more like a DOS thing. DGROUP is usually used in DOS 
programs to specify which object file segments have to be merged in a 
single physical segment (pointed by DS). See:

http://www.nasm.us/doc/nasmdoc7.html#section-7.4.2

(I know this is NASM's and not MASM's documentation, but it explains 
what DGROUP is)

> Also it would be possible to couple the generation of .386p/.686p to 
> the selected target processor. Is there a list of valid options 
> somewhere?
I did this for NASM for the i8086 target, see compiler/x86/agx86nsm.pas, 
lines 1187..1199. Pretty sure it's just as easy to do for the MASM writer.
> What's the difference between _CODE and _TEXT in MASM?
I don't know much about MASM (both the old DOS versions and the new 
ones), because I used TASM back in the old days and then later switched 
to NASM, but maybe it's another DOS thing?

Nikolay