Nico01 / Tracer_88

8088 Assembler and Tracer Toolkit for Linux

Tracer_88

###USING THE 8088 ASSEMBLER AND TRACER TOOLKIT

Assembling your assembly language programs

Assembler source files have an extension ".s". To create a binary for a source named "project.s", enter the command:

    as88 project

This performs the assembly, and generates three files:

• project.88 — The 8088 binary
• project.# — A file which links the file positions in the source file to the positions in the binary file
• project.$ — A copy of the source file which contains included secondary sources and satisfies preferred conventions for the assembly process

Tracing

Once you have assembled project.s, you can trace it with:

    t88 -t project

The tracer subwindow for the source file displays the "project.$" version. Instead of using t88 -t, you can use t88 -r. This just runs the program without displaying the registers and source code as it is running.