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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: a68k macros
Message-ID: <12286@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Jun 90 04:52:09 GMT
References: <1969@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1969@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>
>> When I tried to compile my code using a68k, it didn't recognize the
>> \A-F parameters.  Charlie?
>
>     Silly me, I didn't realize that those parameter numbers were
> supposed to be limited to a single digit.  I whipped up a little
> test program using a macro with 20 parameters (\1 through \20) and
> it works just fine.  You should be limited only by available memory.
> Go nuts!

I think Walter was pointing out that A68K was not accepting \A-\F explicitly.
Normally it would be a good thing for A68K to mimic Metacompco's behavior,
but since this was an allegedly undocumented feature, this is not so
important.

So, when can we expect A68K to handle 030/040 instructions?

Valentin
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