Hello,

I would like to suggest that FASM could have a directive to choose the instruction set (IS) we want to use at specific times.
AFAIK, FASM will assemble the opcodes at the best way it knows. But if I want to assemble an opcode for specific processor (usually older ones), I don´t know how to.
An example would be the ROR (and the like) instruction, wich on 8086 do not admit immediate byte operand, it only RORs one bit.
The directive could be used like "use" directive.
I hope I was clear.

Thanks. See you.

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Am I missing something here?

maybe this way you could add also another families of processors, insted of another exectable (and thus keep fasm only-by-source-typed-executable). IBM compatible will be default, but could be changed by some directive in beginning of file. It will decide which "assemble.inc"-like module will be used for rest of preprocessing and assembling.

I have already preprared it by separating all the "x86.inc" functions from the main "assemble.inc" file - though to allow more different instruction tables, the processor switching directive would have to be recognized by parser. But that's not hard to do, only a bit of work would be needed to make the ".inc" files for other processors.

of course, i meant parsing, not preprocessing.