Comment 26 for bug 579336

I have created a new blueprint to collect all issues related to the implementation of the built-in assembler: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/gnusim8085/+spec/assembler-fixing

What is the general consensus here: would people rather improve on the current built-in assembler to become more feature-complete, or is anybody seriously considering replacing the built-in assembler with a more mature standalone/library component from another OSS project?

I am myself interested in this debate, mostly because of the following features missing in the current implementation:

- ORG
- many standard pseudo instructions
- character strings
- macros