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REPL for Assembly

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 3:37 pm
by madanra
Does anyone know of a REPL for Assembly? (Specifically x86 assembly)

I guess such a REPL would have a register window, probably a memory window, displaying something like what Bochs outputs from the 'r' and 'xp' commands in its debugger, along with a way of entering assembly commands.

Re: REPL for Assembly

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 3:58 pm
by bwat
The old MSDOS debug program could assemble, disassemble, do pretty much anything to the machine.

Re: REPL for Assembly

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:51 pm
by linguofreak
madanra wrote:Does anyone know of a REPL for Assembly? (Specifically x86 assembly)

I guess such a REPL would have a register window, probably a memory window, displaying something like what Bochs outputs from the 'r' and 'xp' commands in its debugger, along with a way of entering assembly commands.
I know of one or two for real/v86 mode in a DOS environment. I don't know of anything that would be suitable for protected mode OS development or for developing userspace programs for modern OS's.