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- Short: PhxAss V4.18 68xxx Macro Assembler
- Uploader: juergen@gator.teuto.de Juergen Stiekel)
- Author: frank@phoenix.owl.de (Frank Wille, Phoenix/Phantasm)
- Type: dev/asm
-
- This archive contains the Assembler PhxAss V4.18 and the Linker
- PhxLnk V4.17.
-
- *** PHXASS ***
- PhxAss V4.18 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 Fast: 15000-30000 lines per minute with standard Amigas, 50000-350000
- with A4000/040.
- o Resident.
- o Symbolic and Source Level Debugging.
- 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 may 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 nine 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, italian, danish 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, ...
- o Further development and support is guaranteed for years, because I'll
- *never* change my system (Amiga forever!).
- o Finally: Although Shareware, there are no disabled functions in PhxAss!
-
- You will find four different versions of PhxAss in this distribution:
- 1. PhxAss: The standard 680x0,FPU,MMU macro assembler.
- 2. SmallPhxAss: This is a 68000-only version without floating point support.
- 3. FreePhxAss: This program is FREEWARE! It is intended for developers of
- PD-Compilers, who want to include PhxAss in their compiler package.
- 4. GigaPhxAss: Identical to PhxAss, but source codes are not limited to
- 65535 lines. Quite useful for assembling huge Reassembler outputs.
-
- CHANGES SINCE PHXASS V4.15 (last Aminet release):
- Fixed Bugs:
- o As a result of improvements in V4.15, the OPT-parameter didn't work. :(
- o MOVE16 didn't work with absolute addresses less than $8000.
- New Features:
- o New CLI-Parameter "RC=ERRCODE/K/N" for defining the return code in case
- of an error.
- o MOVEQ #x,Dn with 128<x<255 will force PhxAss to display a warning,
- which can be disabled by the new NOWARN/S option.
- o Increased the number of possible macro parameters. Now there are 36
- parameters possible! (\\0 - \\9 and \\a - \\z)
- o Increased the buffer sizes from 512 to 1024 bytes.
- o French catalog.
-
-
- *** PHXLNK ***
- PhxLnk is FREEWARE and supports all features of a standard Amiga-DOS linker
- (like BLink), except of overlay hunks and automatic link vectors (ALV).
-
- Implemented functions:
- o Links object files and libraries (SAS/C extended libraries too)
- o Sections can be forced to Chip-memory
- o Small Code, Small Data
- o SAS/C-Blink Small Data compatibility available
- o '_MERGED' sections are recognized automatically (and coalesced like
- Small Data sections)
- o Symbolic and Source Level Debugging (PowerVisor compatibility included)
- o Debug blocks are removed on request
- o Deletes empty sections
- o Zero bytes at the end of a section will be deleted and appear in the
- HUNK_HEADER block only
- o User may define absolute external symbols
- o Generates HUNK_RELOC32SHORT blocks by default
-
- CHANGES SINCE PHXLNK V4.15 (last Aminet release):
- o Partial support for SLink (SAS/C). PhxLnk defines ___ctors and
- ___dtors as NULL to avoid errors during linking. Complete SLink-
- support may follow in a later release. (if somebody needs it :-)
- o Fixing the bug with __MERGED sections in V4.10 generated a new one in
- the 'normal' small data mode.
- o The shortening of sections, as introduced in V4.00, didn't work very
- well.
-