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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
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Subject: [handhelds] STAR 1.04.1 - HP48/HP28 Assembler version 1.04
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Date: 31 Jan 91 02:08:22 GMT
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Archive-name: languages/assemblers/star/1991-01-30
Archive: trix.ai.mit.edu:/pub/star-1.04.1.tar.Z [128.52.32.6]
Original-posting-by: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Original-subject: STAR 1.04.1 - HP48/HP28 Assembler version 1.04
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   Anyone interested can find STAR 1.04 available by anonymous FTP
from trix.ai.mit.edu, in ~/pub/star-1.04.1.tar.Z. It contains
STAR.EXE, an MS-DOS executable. 1.04 should also work on VAX/VMS using
VAX C. There are some problems getting it to run on SPARC machines
using GCC. I'll take a closer look at this.


	o 1.04.1 is 3-4 times as fast as 1.03.

	o Progran, data, and offset sections:

	   PSECT - R/W code section (program)
	   CSECT - R/O code section (code)
	   DSECT - R/W data section (data)
	   LSECT - R/O data section (literals)
	   ASECT - Offset section (addresses)

	  For more details, check README. Notice that with LSECTs, STAR
	is free to do whatever literal sharing (within the section) it
	sees fit. The same applies to CSECTs. ASECTs don't accumulate
	code/data, but are rather used to define offsets. Example:

		
	  	asect grob_offsets
	grob_type: data.a  0
	grob_size: data.a  0
	grob_h:	   data.a  0
	grob_w:	   data.a  0
	grob_data:


	The actual data above is ignored, only the offsets (0, 5, 10,
	15, 20) are actually used.


						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu

;; "Make sure the brain is connected before the mouth is started."