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Short: PhxAss V4.36 68xxx Macro Assembler
Author: frank@phoenix.owl.de (Frank Wille)
Uploader: frank@phoenix.owl.de
Type: dev/asm
Replaces: dev/asm/PhxAss435*
Version: 4.36
Requires: OS2.04
PhxAss V4.36 is a highly optimizing macro assembler for Motorola's 680x0
CPUs, 6888x FPUs and 68851 MMU (of course, the 030, 040 and 060 MMUs are
also supported). It requires OS2.04 (V37) and 1 MB RAM as minimum.
Most important features:
o PhxAss is FREEWARE.
o Symbolic and Source Level Debugging. Possibility to enable Source
Level Debugging for high level languages too.
o Automatic generation of executables (if possible).
o Creates relocatable Amiga-DOS objects or absolute code (written into
a file (raw or Motorola S-Format), into memory or directly onto disk).
o Small Code and Small Data support (also support for __MERGED sections).
o Listing file, Cross Reference Listing, Equates file.
o Complete floating point support: You can use complex floating point
expressions, including float functions (sine, logarithm, square root,
power, etc.), everywhere in your source, e.g. defining float EQUates or
SETs.
o Switches for ten different optimizations.
o Locale symbols (xxx$ and .xxx type).
o Up to 36 macro parameters.
o Support for Motorola's old and new operand style (even in 68000 mode).
o locale.library usage (english, german, swedish, norwegian, italian,
danish, dutch, hungarian and french ).
o Nearly all directives of the most popular assemblers like Seka, DevPac or
AS (Aztec) are supported. Example: INCBIN, INCDIR, CODE_C, REPT, RS,
RSRESET, EQUR, REG, OFFSET, XDEF, XREF, PUBLIC, OUTPUT ...
o PhxAss is able to stay resident in memory.
You will find two different versions of PhxAss in this distribution:
1. PhxAss: The standard 680x0,FPU,MMU macro assembler.
2. GigaPhxAss: Identical to PhxAss, but source codes are not limited to
65535 lines. Quite useful for assembling huge Reassembler outputs.
CHANGES SINCE PHXASS V4.35 (last Aminet release):
Fixed Bugs:
o The PUBLIC directive didn't work in a macro.
o "IFND <external symbol>" had the side effect to disable optimization
for all sections which were defined after the current one.
o Assigning an address to a global symbol with EQU had the same effect
like a global label. As a result this EQU ended a local label block.
Example:
start bra .l1
symbol equ start
.l1 rts
o Branch optimization made a BRA.W *+6 from JMP *+6. It has to be BRA.W *+4.
o PhxAss didn't create an object file, if a source text contained no
code. Now an empty object will be created to prevent problems with
Makefiles.
New Features:
o DS/DCB/BLK <n> with a large <n> does no longer require more time to
assemble than with a small <n>.
o Displays the message "Illegal PHXOPTIONS file" if the format of the
PHXOPTIONS file is incorrect.
o ZEROPADDING/S forces PhxAss to use zero bytes for CNOP-padding
instead NOP instructions.
o New directive IMAGE for AsmOne compatibility. Behaves the same
like INCBIN link incbin}.
o Directives for compatibilty with OMA 3.x: EQURL (behaves like REG)
and FEQURL (behaves like FREG).
o CMPI #0 and SUBI #0 will be optimized to TST, if (n)ormal optimization
is enabled.
o (outerDisp,[...]) will be automatically converted into the 020+
addressing mode ([...],outerDisp).