PowerPC Assemblers?

tyler (asks) asks: "I asked many people, but nobody had an answer for me, so I figured i'd ask the most knowledgable people on the web: Does anyone know where i can get an assembly development environment for the PowerPC?"

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No one ever loses by knowing too much..

[leereyno]

Someone out there wrote the compilers which generate the RISC optimized code. I see far too many people out there thinking in terms of what they can get by with knowing, rather than seeking to know as much as they can. Obviously you can't know everything about everything, but you should try to know as much as you can about the things you do study and know something about as many different things as you can. I've met many people who were considered to be Guru's but who didn't know a damn thing about anything outside their specialty. Some people consider me to be a guru and it is in no small part due to the fact that I know something about just about everything computer wise. I can hold my own in discussions with software developers, hardware engineers, Mac freaks, Amiga lovers, networking experts, MCSE's etc. I don't know everything, but the wide range of what I do know comes in very handy and I can't tell you how many times something I learned while studying one thing was applicable to a vastly different thing later on. Understanding the instruction set of a processor gives you an insight into how that machine really works, it may be a subtle insight, but it can and will make a difference. Someone has to create the compilers that 99% of the rest of the developers will use. Last time I checked IBM and Motorola weren't developing GCC. Someone in the community has to understand these chips on that level, otherwise GCC and other free development tools will quickly become obsolete.