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Greg_M



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Greg_M 07 Jun 2025, 06:49
Does the 'g' in fasmg mean generic?
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dosmancer 08 Jun 2025, 00:00
yes

fasmg is a generic assembler that does not "by itself " know any instruction set but has a powerful macro language that can be used to implement instruction sets for any processor, some instruction sets can be seen here https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=19389 .

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Greg_M



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Greg_M 08 Jun 2025, 01:19
Thanks!
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bitRAKE 08 Jun 2025, 06:01
IIRC, Tomasz said it was just the letter following "f", as he was trying to implement the desired features for fasm2. As apt as generic seems the shadow of x86 and fasm are baked into fasmg - almost completely replaceable/extensible.
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Tomasz Grysztar



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Tomasz Grysztar 08 Jun 2025, 10:33
bitRAKE wrote:
IIRC, Tomasz said it was just the letter following "f", as he was trying to implement the desired features for fasm2.
You probably have this post in mind: https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?p=174017#174017
But in the same thread I have also been mentioning "generic" as an explanation for the choice of the letter.
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Greg_M



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Greg_M 08 Jun 2025, 15:53
With ARM64 fast encroaching on the x86/64 world, this meaning (generic) is important, and reflects the purpose/milieu of the language.


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jbirddog 09 Jun 2025, 11:31
Just to harp on the generic aspect, the bytecode block file assembler for my hobby VM is fasmg with some custom include files. Host applications can extend the assembler with definitions for their own custom opcodes by having their own include files as well. It ended up being a lot of bang for the buck.
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