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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A68k and Manx AS
Message-ID: <262@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 01:57:43 GMT
References: <221@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <221@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>        - Bcc is converted to Bcc.S if possible (for backward
>            references only - forward references are too hard :-).

There were some assemblers on the PDP 11 (long ago, V6 Unix) that did
the forward references, too. Problematic due to an apparent necessity for
an indefinite number of passes or the equivalent, but when your text memory
space is only 64K I guess it may seem worth it.
	Doug
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