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Revision as of 21:25, 12 June 2016
This is a comparison of various operating system development tools.
x86 Assemblers
Syntax | Output Format | Instruction Set | |||||||
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AT&T | Intel | ELF | a.out | COFF | flat | 16 bit | 32 bit | 64 bit | |
GAS | Yes | YesTemplate:Ref | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | YesTemplate:Ref | Yes | YesTemplate:Ref |
NASM | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | YesTemplate:Ref |
YASM | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FASM | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
JWASM | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MASMTemplate:Ref | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | YesTemplate:Ref |
Sol_asm | No | YesTemplate:Ref | Yes | No | n/a | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
WASM | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
AS86 | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
llvm-mc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
- Template:Note using the
.intel_syntax
directive. Several opcodes will still use the AT&T name. - Template:Note While GAS normally writes only "pure" 32-bit i386 code, it has limited support for writing code to run in real mode or in 16-bit protected mode code segments.
- Template:Note You have to choose the instruction set at compile time (of the assembler). GAS can not assemble for more than one operating mode at a time, i.e. you would need one GAS for 32bit and one GAS for 64bit if you'd want to mix those two.
- Template:Note 64-bit support is only available in NASM 2.x.
- Template:Note Because of the license it may be illegal to use MASM for "non-windows development"
- Template:Note 64-bit support is only available in a separate executable, named ml64.
- Template:Note Sol_Asm uses its own syntax, which looks like the Intel syntax.
Compilers
Extensions | Output format | ||||||||
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Inline Assembly | ELF | a.out | flat | PE | COFF | 16-bit code segments | 32-bit code segments | 64-bit code segments | |
gcc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
clang | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
msvc | Yes | No | No | NoTemplate:Ref | Yes | Yes | Version 4.X | Yes | Yes |
icl | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
watcom | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
- Template:Note Visual Studio can emit
.COM
files.
Linkers
Name | Input | Output | Flat Binary Images | Set Code Address | Library Support | Supports Debug Info | 32bit Code | ||||||||
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OMF/ OBJ | Win32/ COFF | ELF | A.OUT | Others | Win32/ PE | Win32/ DLL | ELF | A.OUT | Others | ||||||
JLoc | Yes | No | No | No | No | DOS/COM | Yes | Yes | No | OMF/OBJ | Yes | ||||
ALink | Yes | Yes | No | No | DJGPP/COFF | Yes | Yes | No | No | DOS/COM DOS/EXE | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
LD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | DJGPP/COFF OMF/COFF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various | Yes | Yes | Yes | ECOFF DWARF STABS | Yes |
TLink | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | DOS/EXE DOS/COM | No | Yes | Yes | OMF/OBJ | Yes | |
Link | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | DOS/EXE DOS/COM LE | No | Yes | Yes | CODEVIEW DWARF | Yes | |
VAL | Yes | No | No | No | No | DOS/EXE | No | No | No | Yes | No | ||||
WLink | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | DOS/EXE DOS/COM LE Pharlap Novell_NLM Causeway QNX | Yes | Yes | Yes | WATCOM CODEVIEW DWARF | Yes |