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Documented the "Flags" term for object files
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| date | Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:17:22 +0000 |
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| 148 | 1 The following includes the various changes in each release of LWTOOLS. |
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| 3 Each item is prefixed by a flag in []. The flags mean: | |
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| 5 [*] Project structure or other "meta" change | |
| 6 [!] critical bug fix - code generation error, etc. | |
| 7 [+] new feature | |
| 8 [-] feature removed | |
| 9 [b] minor bugfix | |
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10 [ ] general improvement |
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| 12 Also, the software affected may follow in []. | |
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| 224 | 14 Version 2.5 |
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| 16 [!] Fixed error in the fix for invalid operands included in 2.4 [LWASM] | |
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17 [b] Fixed bug with "include" directive operand parsing [LWASM] |
| 229 | 18 [b] Fixed additional parsing errors with pseudo ops [LWASM] |
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19 [+] Added includebin directive to include the literal contents of a binary |
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20 file at the current assembly address. [LWASM] |
| 226 | 21 [+] Added || and && as boolean or and boolean and respectively [LWASM] |
| 228 | 22 [+] Added COPY, COPY-, IMP, EXP, TFRP, TFRM, TFRS, TFRR as alternatives to |
| 23 the TFM instruction variations for compatibility with other assemblers | |
| 24 [LWASM] | |
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25 [+] Added --6809/-9 switch to cause 6309 instructions to be rejected; also |
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26 included --6309/-3 switch to force default allow of 6309 instructions |
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28 [ ] Fixed a few cosmetic issues with error reporting |
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30 Version 2.4 |
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32 [!] Fixed off by one relocation offest for base page external references |
| 221 | 33 generated by lwasm [LWASM] |
| 34 [b] Fixed segfault in "extern" pseudo op and allowed a symbol list as the | |
| 35 operand just like "export" [LWASM] | |
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36 [b] Fixed lack of error when there are extraneous characters at the end |
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37 of the operand. This did not cause incorrect code generation for correct |
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38 code but would silently generate incorrect code for some easy errors |
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39 [+] 8 bit immediate operands can now be external references [LWASM] |
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| 180 | 41 Version 2.3 |
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| 216 | 43 [*] added support for compiling using MinGW and added portions of gnulib |
| 44 to support argp, among other things. Yah! A Windows build! | |
| 187 | 45 [+] added library search path (-L) and library specification (-l) to LWLINK |
| 46 [+] added ability to specify section base addresses on the command line to | |
| 180 | 47 LWLINK (they get prepended to the built in link script) |
| 187 | 48 [+] added ability to output a "linkmap" to lwlink (--map, -m) |
| 49 [+] added LWEX0 (LWOS simple binary) target to LWLINK | |
| 188 | 50 [+] added ability to extract files in LWAR |
| 51 [+] added ability to "replace" members in LWAR | |
| 190 | 52 [+] added support for "sym=expr" in the opcode field; this will define a |
| 53 global symbol (non-section) if it resolves to a constant | |
| 191 | 54 [+] added operator ~ as a prefix operator for a 1s complement in LWASM |
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55 [+] allow exporting multiple symbols (export sym,sym,sym...) |
| 216 | 56 [+] allow extern references in base page addresing mode, possibly buggy |
| 57 still (LWASM) | |
| 58 [+] handle 8 bit external references, possibly buggy still (LWLINK) | |
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59 [+] arranged for unused members of library files (archives) to be ignored |
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60 during linking to keep the final size of the binary down (LWLINK) |
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61 [b] arranged for output files for lwasm/lwlink to be removed if the assembly |
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62 or linking fails |
| 209 | 63 [b] fixed incorrect handling of library search path which caused only the |
| 64 last directory to ever matter | |
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68 [ ] LWLINK now displays *all* undefined symbols and references instead of |
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69 bailing out after the first one |
| 180 | 70 |
| 166 | 71 Version 2.2 |
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| 171 | 73 [*] created LWAR to manage library/archive files |
| 166 | 74 [+] cescapes pragma to allow C-style string escapes in FCC, FCS, and FCN |
| 75 [+] .area alias for SECTION | |
| 76 [+] .globl alias for EXPORT; also accept name of symbol as operand | |
| 77 [+] various compatibility directive aliases for FCB, FDB, FQB, RMB, FCC, | |
| 78 FCS, and FCN | |
| 79 [+] accept "*" has a prefix for base page addressing mode | |
| 168 | 80 [+] sections named "bss" or ".bss" in any case are now assumed to be |
| 81 BSS sections. The "!bss" flag can be used to remove that assumption. | |
| 169 | 82 [+] ignore lines starting with # to permit C pre-processor output to be used |
| 83 as input to lwasm | |
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84 [+] allow "0x" and "0X" as prefixes to identify hexadecimal numbers |
| 171 | 85 [+] added support for a simple library/archive file format to LWLINK |
| 166 | 86 [b] actually show assembly errors when no list requested |
| 87 [b] pragma and --pragma now actually take multiple pragmas as documented | |
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| 148 | 89 Version 2.1 |
| 90 | |
| 91 [*] merged LWLINK (1.0) and LWASM to create LWTOOLS | |
| 92 [+] [LWASM] pragmas can be specified on the command line | |
| 93 [+] [LWASM] undefextern pragma added (undefined symbols treated as external) | |
| 94 [+] documentation | |
| 95 [b] [LWASM] made pragmas case insensitive | |
| 96 [b] [LWASM] made EXTERN symbols never be part of a section in symbol table | |
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| 98 | |
| 99 LWASM Version 2.0 | |
| 100 | |
| 101 [*] major rewrite of the entire assembler | |
| 102 [+] object file support | |
| 103 | |
| 104 | |
| 105 LWLINK Version 1.0 | |
| 106 | |
| 107 [*] initial released version |