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- Assembler
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- This stage may be invoked if you have a valid .s file generated by the
- GCC/compile option. It must not be used to process the output of the
- compile(MPW) option. Typically the required format is known as
- MIT syntax, whereas the compile(MPW) option generates Motorola
- syntax with Apple variations.
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- To invoke the assembler, bring a valid .s editor window to the front,
- and choose the GCC/assemble menu option.
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- Assuming there are no errors, an object browser window will be
- produced, or if you have a suitcase open, a dummy desk accessory
- will be produced and added to the suitcase. The idea of using desk
- accessories as object modules is to make it easy to manage
- libraries using the finder. These DAs are nothing to do with
- your final application, and have no individual functionality.
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- The object browser window shows the symbols generated by your program,
- whether internal/external/common and text,data or uninitialized data.
- Each symbol has a file corresponding to the nominal offset in the object file,
- or -------- if it is an undefined external.
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- If you get any errors from the assembler pass, it is either a program error
- or you attempted to process an invalid source window, or you tried to
- assemble an incorrect user assembly language module.
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- If you have a valid object browser window open, you can proceed to the
- link stage, or compile more modules to be linked with this one.
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