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From: imp@dancer.Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Z80 assembler recommendations
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.210413.21843@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 90 21:04:13 GMT
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I need recommendations for a Z80 assembler that handles Zilog
Mnemonics.  I have a BIOS-oid (for a DEC Rainbow, if that matters)
that I need to assemble.  The assembler should be able to do the
following:

	1) Macro expansion

		With arguments like ?Name, ?Size

	2) Label folding

		Similar to the way that PDP-11 and VAX MACRO works.
		Namely, labels that are numberic followed by a "$"
		are discarded at the next non-temp label.  The
		following code should work:

		foo:	ld	A,8
		10$:	JP	C,20$
			JP	N,10$
		20$:	ld	A,(HL)
			XOR	A
		bar:	LD	A,(IX+1)
			LD	B,(IX)
			LD	C,10
		10$:	OUT	(40H),A
			DJNZ	10$

	3) Support for IF, TITLE and ORG

	4) Ability to produce binary image file

This can run on a Sun 4, MS-DOS (Rainbow), CP/M-80 or CP/M-86.
Pointers to a writeup on all the ones available would be nice.  I know
about simtel20.army.mil, but I couldn't find a writeup on what was
available.  Most of the files in the PD2:<CPM.ASMUTIL> directory had
the description:"No description available".

Warner

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