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From: ahg@k.cc.purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Free C Compiler?  Almost!
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Date: 13 Mar 88 17:38:11 GMT
References: <2435@k.cc.purdue.edu> <7626@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: ahg@k.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Allen Braunsdorf)
Organization: 3-D Computer Graphics From Hell
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Keywords: c compiler output does not assemble  dotted constants

In article <7626@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bryce@eris (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>Post *small* examples, edit it down to a line or two and ask the net.

I don't have my notes here, but one problem that I remember turning up a lot
is "dotted constants":

	DS.l	.0

The assembler doesn't like that at all because of the dot.  I don't know what
putting a dot before a constant is supposed to mean.  Is this a convention I
don't know about?  Maybe a way to denote a long constant?

Additionally:

	DS.l	.0,.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,.6,.7

The assembler really hates this one.  Apparently, DS wants just one argument
and it shouldn't have a dot on it.

If this makes no sense at all, then the compiler's probably belching out
garbage, but if this is just not OK for this assembler, I'd like to know
the equivalent in this one (it's Metacomco compatible, I think).

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