About HLA, I know I should mark a strict line between assembler and high
liver compiler, so I design the project to be completely independent, I was
thinking in support of high lever compiler C++ not a full C++ compiler.

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 9:25 AM Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 22 Jan 2024 16:51, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > > now I want to create a useful assembler with new capabilities, even I
> want to add a high level assembler like a C/C++ syntaxes, all that to
> support the open source movement.
> >
> > Well I wish you luck.  I feel that I should point out that there
> > are already two open source assemblers available - the one from
> > the GNU binutils project and the one from the LLVM project.  So
> > you probably need to have some feature to make yours stand out.
>
> there's even more if the target is x86 -- nasm/yasm, and masm (Windows).
> there's also dev86 which hasn't been updated in a while, but seems to be
> used in a few places still.
>
> creating an assembler can certainly be a useful learning exercise.  going
> beyond that, everything Nick said is certainly true -- it's already a
> pretty
> competitive landscape, so you'd want to identify a significant shortcoming
> to make yours stand out as something people would care about.
>
> just don't morph into something like High Level Assembly (HLA) :).
> -mike
>