ALP Programming Guide and Reference

Reprint Courtesy of International Business Machines Corporation, © International Business Machines Corporation

The Assembly Language Processor (ALP) is an assembler that runs under OS/2 Warp. ALP is a functional replacement for the Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM) and accepts:

• The full syntax of the Intel 80X86 architecture
• The full syntax of the MASM 5.10 high-level directive language
• A subset of the MASM 6.00 high-level directive language

ALP generates standard Object Module Format (OMF) files that can be linked to produce DOS or OS/2 executables. It can also generate symbolic debugging information compatible with the IBM family of source code debuggers. A MASM 5.10-compatible command line utility (MASM2ALP) is also provided to enable use of ALP with little or no change to existing build environments.

ALP also offers a rich set of command line options, as well as a comprehensive listing output capability that is highly configurable, allowing a visual perspective not possible with other assemblers.

Contents

• About this Reference
• Assembly Language Processor (ALP) Overview
• Installation
• Understanding ALP
• Using ALP
• Language Elements
• Declarations
• Expressions
• Text Preprocessor
• Assembler Directives
• Processor Reference
• Assembler Messages
• Return Codes
• Notices

Editions

• alpref.inf (Mar 1997)
• alpref.inf (Oct 1997)
• alpref.inf (Feb 2000)
• Web Book (Feb 2000)