With Borland's built-in assembler, you can write 8086/8087 and 80286/80287 assembler code directly inside your Pascal programs.

Index to Built-in Assembler Help

Using the Built-in Assembler

You access the built-in assembler through assembler statements (with the asm directive).

Built-in assembler procedures and functions must obey the same rules as external procedures and functions.

Expressions

Borland's built-in assembler operands are expressions. The basic elements of an expression are constants, registers, symbols, and operators.

The built-in assembler divides expressions into three classes:

Symbols

The built-in assembler provides access to almost all Pascal symbols in assembler expressions, including labels, constants, types, variables, procedures, and functions.

In addition to any currently declared Pascal types, the built-in assembler provides several predefined type symbols.

Constants

Borland's built-in assembler supports two types of constants:

Opcodes, Operators, and Directives

Borland's built-in assembler supports:

Most operations implemented through Turbo Assembler directives are matched by corresponding Turbo Pascal constructs.

The built-in assembler also implements a large subset of the syntax supported by Turbo Assembler and Microsoft's Macro Assembler.