FAIL

Abstract

This is a reference manual for FAIL, a fast, one-pass assembler for PDP-10 and PDP-6, machine language. FAIL statements, pseudo-operations, macros, and conditional assembly features are described. Although FAIL uses substantially more main memory than MACRO-10, it assembles typical programs about five times faster. FAIL assembles the entire Stanford time-sharing operating system (two million characters) in less than four minutes of CPU time on a KA-10 processor. FAIL permits an ALGOL-style block structure which provides a way of localizing the usage of some symbols to certain parts of the program, such that the same symbol name can be used to mean different things in different blocks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0778310

Entities

People

  • F. H. Wright
  • R. E. Gorin

Organizations

  • Stanford University

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Assembly
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Debugging
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Machine Languages
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Operating Systems
  • Personality
  • Programming Languages

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  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Computer Science.