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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: a68k macros
Message-ID: <2008@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 90 20:18:49 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <12286@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com
(Valentin Pepelea) writes:

>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.

     Ah.  Yes, this was sneaky of Metacomco.  However, in a similar
fit of sneakiness (actually, by popular demand) I extended A68k so
that any label preceded by a backslash is treated as a local label
in the same manner as Metacomco's nnn$ construct (which I also
support).  Things like \A would fit into this category.  I didn't
realize that there would be a conflict (as you said, Metacomco's
behaviour is undocumented, at least in the Bantam manual) but my
loyal fans like named local labels better anyway.

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

     Can you say Real Soon Now?  :-)  Maybe in the fall when the
weather turns too rotten to spend what little spare time I have
outside.  The 68020's assembly language syntax was as big a break
with the 68000's as the 68000 hardware was with the 6800; I'll
have to completely rewrite the operand parser and code generator.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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