NASM another way out?

The .intel_syntax directive is not supported under the XCode Gas assembler. This is not an option.

In searching for information for converting MASM to Gas I have found that, as I understand it, most assembly work is actually done on NASM, and indeed this assembler has been available as part of he default XCode installation for a long time. Gas, it seems, is primarily designed as an assembler for GCC rather than as a stand-alone assembler. NASM is also closer to MASM than Gas.

MASM assembler still needs to be converted to NASM. I found a Perl program Nomyso that will do a fair bit of he work. It looks far promising than intel2gas which proved to be very disappointing.

Problems using Nomyso:

1. Handling of structs seems wrong
2. Included files are copied into the resulting file rather than being converted to %include.

Some useful links:

1. A good survey of Assemblers
2. Apple NASM Man Page
3. NASM Documentation
4. Writing A Useful Program With NASM

For the moment I am going to put the business of getting jcalg to assemble under OSX/XCode to one side as I can work around it.