LSWAsm 2009

LSWAsm is an interactive Assembler and Debugger written in itself. It's main purpose is to translate the LSW Vision-Smalltalk Virtual Machine.

LSWAsm is mainly developed under MS-Windows Vista, has a powerful Macro-System, an integrated Source-Code editor, an integrated Linker and an visual  Debugger.

The reasons to have a proprietary Assembler to produce the virtual-Machine for our LSWVST are:

•  the Debugger has knowledge about the LSWVST Object-format and this can display the Smalltalk-Stack during debugging.
•  we have special dump formats ( LSWVST mini-dump and LSWVST full dump ) which allow us to take out the traditional Smalltalks stack dump code from the virtual-Machine
•  we have developed a complex macro-set ( LSW-AMS ) which we use to be independent of processor and platform.
•  we can adopt LSWVST to new platforms very fast

LSWAsm produces PE- executables for X86 / Win32 and Win-CE.

LSWAsm  runs under X86-WinCE Emulator - including the debugging IDE.

LSWASM has build-in support for Software-Protection.

For LSWAsm 2010 we will support 64-Bit, ARM-Processors & more.

We are porting LSWAsm to Linux & OSX.