LSWASM 2013

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

LSWAsm is mainly developed under MS-Windows, 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 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 an advanced macro-set ( LSW-AMS ) which we use to be independent of the processor and platform.
•  we can adopt LSWVST to new platforms very fast.

LSWAsm produces executables for

•  X86 / X64
•  Win32 / Win64
•  Windows Embedded
•  Windows-Phone ( Intel & ARM ) and COFF Executables for Unix.