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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Problems with Manx AS and LN
Message-ID: <1945@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 14:40:13 GMT
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 >  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:

I have always found the Manx assembler to be very good at assembling the
output of their compiler, but nearly useless for any serious assembly work.
I tried this, and though I did not get the same results you did, I too was
unable to get it through the linker. I tried it on A68K, Charlie Gibbs'
freely distributable assembler, and other than having to remove the
'far' directives, it ate it just fine, as did Blink 6.7.

-larry

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