23 Jan
2003
23 Jan
'03
4:52 a.m.
On Jan 23, 8:42, Philip Pemberton wrote:
problem...
Silly
question; why don't you use the assembler built into BBC Micro
BASIC? I
> used this for years for many serious programs and never had a (I
run,
should be able to remember how to use it still!)
Because I hate having to write a BASIC backend to get the assembler to then there's code relocation issues if I want to
make Paged ROM images...
For those things, an assembler is much easier.
The "backend" part is hardly onerous, and the ability to do all sorts of
tricks makes it a pretty good macroassembler. As for relocation, that's
why you use both P% (program counter) and O% (where the code will be
assembled).
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York