15.2. 15.2 Mixing HLA and MASM/Gas Code in the Same Program

It may seem kind of weird to mix MASM or Gas and HLA code in the same program. After all, they're both assembly languages, and almost anything you can do with MASM or Gas can be done in HLA. So why bother trying to mix the two in the same program? Well, there are three reasons:

  • You already have a lot of code written in MASM or Gas and you don't want to convert it to HLA's syntax.

  • There are a few things MASM and Gas do that HLA cannot, and you happen to need to do one of those things.

  • Someone else has written some MASM or Gas code and s/he wants to be able to call code you've written using HLA.

In this section, we'll discuss two ways to merge MASM/Gas and HLA code in the same program: via ...

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