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  • Which assembler...

    From A2CPM@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 27 06:56:55 2021
    Hi!

    ...can assemble the following:
    TITL "XYZ"
    NAME XYZ
    RSEG
    TEXP 0
    MEXP 0

    Willi

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  • From fadden@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 27 07:42:49 2021
    On Friday, August 27, 2021 at 6:56:56 AM UTC-7, A2CPM wrote:
    ...can assemble the following:

    The answer depends on whether those are expected to be built-in directives or are macros.

    (For the former case, nothing springs to mind.)

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  • From I am Rob@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 27 20:24:40 2021
    On Friday, August 27, 2021 at 7:56:56 AM UTC-6, A2CPM wrote:
    Hi!

    ...can assemble the following:
    TITL "XYZ"
    NAME XYZ
    RSEG
    TEXP 0
    MEXP 0

    Willi

    It looks like you want TITL to be recognized as just ASCII and NAME to be recognized as STRING with a leading string-length value. But most, if not all, assemblers will recognize text-without-quotes as another label so one can do:

    ZP EQU 2
    ZP1 EQU ZP+1

    TEXP and MEXP can be a value or a reserved memory position as in:

    TEXP EQU 0
    TEXP DB 0

    Your assembler is not a mind reader.

    I imagine RSEG would be a label to indicate the current position as in:

    RSEG EQU *

    I have seen this one quite a bit in source, without the "EQU *", but don't know which assembler recognizes it.

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  • From A2CPM@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 28 13:39:59 2021
    Hi!

    The assembler that can handle the code snippet i posted is part of a toolchain used by Franklin Computer for development. The toolchain was written by Dave McWherter. This info was given to me by Bob Applegate, a former employee of Franklin.
    Obtaining docs for the toolchain would be nice.

    Willi

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