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From: chem194@canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis, programmer at large, chemistry department)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Assembly Language
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.123203.9581@canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 29 Oct 90 23:32:03 GMT
References: <1990Oct26.233149.8978@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <837@public.BTR.COM>
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In article <837@public.BTR.COM>, eeh@public.BTR.COM (Eduardo E. Horvath  eeh@btr.com) writes:
> In article <1990Oct26.233149.8978@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
> 
>>	I need pointers on a good assembly language compiler-linker
>>package for the Amiga. I was an avid Z80 assembly language person
>>back in the 8 bit CPU days - I really like it. Any available that
>>generate PRN like files that Microsoft's M80 compiler produced?
> 
> 	If the PRN files are absolute listings with the mnemonics and the hex
> code generated side by side, I don't think you can get the equivalent on an
> Amiga.  The reason for that is that addresses are not inserted until load time,
> and every load is potentially different and unique, so the hex will constantly
> change.
 
Actually, HiSoft's DevPac supports the output of _absolute_ code ( i.e.
code ORG'd to a specific adress, such as you need for ROM-able code ),
hence with the list-to-disk option turned on it will do what is required.

I'm pretty certain a few other proper Assembler development systems
do too ... like it's very handy both for cross-development for embedded
systems, and also I guess for games that take the hardware over directly
and hence don't use the AmigaDOS code loader/relocator.
 
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