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From: eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Error in ST MINIX assembler
Summary: WHICH ASSEMBLER (or will the real assembler please stand up)
Message-ID: <1849@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Oct 90 20:19:28 GMT
References: <32002@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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In article <32002@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
> While hunting a suspected bug in c68, I found that the ST MINIX as is
> broken:
> sub.l #0xFFFF0001,...
> sub.l #0xABCD0001,...
> sub.l #0x7FFF0001,...
> are all converted to
> subq.l #1,...
> 
(stuff deleted)
> 
> C.v.W.


On examining the genuine P-H 1.5 distribution for Atari and Amiga, I find that
the assemblers are different.  What's more, they are both different from my
existing version, which came from ST 1.1.

For example if I try size:

 27458    8070   13286  100000  148814  /user/atari/bin/as  
 29984    9600   13260  100000  152844  /user/amiga/bin/as   
 26352    7908   13286  100000  147546  /usr/bin/as  

Both my original assembler and the 1.5 ST version exhibit the problem above.
The Amiga version doesn't.  So if you want a working assembler, use the Amiga
version ....

Andy Michael


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