Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!rmi!kkaempf
From: kkaempf@rmi.UUCP (Klaus Kaempf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Problems with Manx AS and LN
Summary: I can't even call exec with the manx assembler
Message-ID: <1197@rmi.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 88 12:26:24 GMT
Reply-To: kkaempf@rmi.de (Klaus Kaempf)
Organization: RMI Net, Aachen, W.Germany
Lines: 61


What's wrong with the following program ??

--
	far code
	far data

AbsExecBase	equ	$4

	move.l	$4,a6
	movea.l	$00000004,a6
	move.l	ExecBase,a6
	movea.l	ExecBase,a6
	move.l	AbsExecBase,a6
	movea.l	AbsExecBase,a6

	bra.s	Label
	bra	Label

	ds.b	10
Label

	section ,data
ExecBase equ $4
	section ,code
	end
--

Nothing you say ? Well, let's look what Manx's AS 3.6a has to say:

--
> as bautz.asm

Aztec 68000 Assembler 3.6a  12-18-87
Label
     ^
File bautz.asm; Line 17 # Label mismatch - Pc=0026 Label=002a,sdi=4

FATAL ERROR - Ending PC's differ: Pass 1=2a Pass2=26
--

Ha ! That's the assembler trying to optimize ON THE SECOND PASS ONLY !
Ok, then I try it without optimization and set the -n option.
> as -n bautz.asm
And voila! No assembly errors. Fine, let's start the linker:
>ln bautz.o
Aztec C68K Linker 3.6a  12-18-87
Base: 000000   Code: 00002c  Data: 000000  Udata: 000000  Total: 00002c
Relocation table invalid from 0 to 252, of -8!!


So what am I doing wrong ????

Thanks for any help!

Klaus


P.S: For those of you out there with the Manx Assembler at hand, have
a look at the listing file the assembler generates. Or the symbol dump
the linker produces or even the 'final' program. Very interesting.