by HLA v1.37 is now available on Webster.
(http://webster.cs.ucr.edu and, specifically,
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_hla/0_hla_dnld.html)
HLA (the High Level Assembler) is a language system
designed to rapidly teach assembly language programming
to newcomers who are already familiar with a high level
language like C/C++, Java, Pascal/Delphi/Kylix, Visual
Basic, etc., by leveraging their high level language programming
knowledge.
HLA is also one of the most powerful and feature-laden assemblers
available for the x86 platform. HLA allows advanced programmers to write
extremely sophisticated programs in assembly language that they
would normally write in a high level language.
HLA v1.37 corrects a couple of "show-stopper" defects found in
v1.35 and adds support for 128-bit arithmetic throughout the compiler.
(This, for example, provides the necessary infrastructure to handle
the upcoming 64-bit versions of the x86 processor family, e.g., the AMD
Hammer series; it also makes it a whole lot easier to write 32-bit
programs that manipulate multi-precision objects.) HLA v1.37 also
adds several new "type-transfer" functions that allow you to relax
type checking in compile-time objects and treat those constants
as strings of bits, regardless of the underlying type.
HLA v1.37 is available for both Windows and Linux platforms.
Programs written with HLA (using the HLA Standard Library)
are portable between the two systems with nothing more than
a recompile.
HLA is fully supported by nearly 500 pages of reference documentation.
Also, there is an HLA version of "The Art of Assembly Language
Programming" for both Windows and Linux as well as hundreds of
additional pages of HLA-related information on Webster
(http://webster.cs.ucr.edu).