Xenix & MASM

[Karl Hanzel]

In article <416 at marob.MASA.COM> samperi at marob.MASA.COM (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>It appears that the assembler that is supplied with SCO Xenix (386) cannot
>assemble code that is generated by the SCO Xenix C compiler. That is, code
>that is generated via "cc -S -c prog.c" will causes masm to generate error
>messages about the COMM directive, and some other messages about illegal
>ORG arguments, etc. The generated assembly code _will_ compile under
>MSDOS, using MASM 5.0+! Unfortunately, I don't think the object code file
>generated can be used under XENIX (?).
>
>Is there some information I'm missing here? Any tips will be greatly
>appreciated.

I've seen this with Microsoft Xenix-286 for my Intel System 310,...
using the 'as' assembler.  For one, the assembler uses '|' as a
delimeter for comments, whereas the compiler 'cc -S' produces ';'s.
But beyond that 'as' still doesn't work to produce valid dot-o's.  Ugh.
pax,
   Karl
   *----->