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annotate ChangeLog @ 282:2ca46690162b 2.3
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| date | Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:14:47 +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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| 180 | 14 Version 2.3 |
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| 216 | 16 [*] added support for compiling using MinGW and added portions of gnulib |
| 17 to support argp, among other things. Yah! A Windows build! | |
| 187 | 18 [+] added library search path (-L) and library specification (-l) to LWLINK |
| 19 [+] added ability to specify section base addresses on the command line to | |
| 180 | 20 LWLINK (they get prepended to the built in link script) |
| 187 | 21 [+] added ability to output a "linkmap" to lwlink (--map, -m) |
| 22 [+] added LWEX0 (LWOS simple binary) target to LWLINK | |
| 188 | 23 [+] added ability to extract files in LWAR |
| 24 [+] added ability to "replace" members in LWAR | |
| 190 | 25 [+] added support for "sym=expr" in the opcode field; this will define a |
| 26 global symbol (non-section) if it resolves to a constant | |
| 191 | 27 [+] added operator ~ as a prefix operator for a 1s complement in LWASM |
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28 [+] allow exporting multiple symbols (export sym,sym,sym...) |
| 216 | 29 [+] allow extern references in base page addresing mode, possibly buggy |
| 30 still (LWASM) | |
| 31 [+] handle 8 bit external references, possibly buggy still (LWLINK) | |
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32 [+] arranged for unused members of library files (archives) to be ignored |
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33 during linking to keep the final size of the binary down (LWLINK) |
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34 [b] arranged for output files for lwasm/lwlink to be removed if the assembly |
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35 or linking fails |
| 209 | 36 [b] fixed incorrect handling of library search path which caused only the |
| 37 last directory to ever matter | |
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38 [ ] DECB output of LWLINK now collapses contiguous output blocks into single |
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39 single blocks in the output file; this eliminates the explosion of |
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41 [ ] LWLINK now displays *all* undefined symbols and references instead of |
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42 bailing out after the first one |
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| 166 | 44 Version 2.2 |
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| 171 | 46 [*] created LWAR to manage library/archive files |
| 166 | 47 [+] cescapes pragma to allow C-style string escapes in FCC, FCS, and FCN |
| 48 [+] .area alias for SECTION | |
| 49 [+] .globl alias for EXPORT; also accept name of symbol as operand | |
| 50 [+] various compatibility directive aliases for FCB, FDB, FQB, RMB, FCC, | |
| 51 FCS, and FCN | |
| 52 [+] accept "*" has a prefix for base page addressing mode | |
| 168 | 53 [+] sections named "bss" or ".bss" in any case are now assumed to be |
| 54 BSS sections. The "!bss" flag can be used to remove that assumption. | |
| 169 | 55 [+] ignore lines starting with # to permit C pre-processor output to be used |
| 56 as input to lwasm | |
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57 [+] allow "0x" and "0X" as prefixes to identify hexadecimal numbers |
| 171 | 58 [+] added support for a simple library/archive file format to LWLINK |
| 166 | 59 [b] actually show assembly errors when no list requested |
| 60 [b] pragma and --pragma now actually take multiple pragmas as documented | |
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| 148 | 62 Version 2.1 |
| 63 | |
| 64 [*] merged LWLINK (1.0) and LWASM to create LWTOOLS | |
| 65 [+] [LWASM] pragmas can be specified on the command line | |
| 66 [+] [LWASM] undefextern pragma added (undefined symbols treated as external) | |
| 67 [+] documentation | |
| 68 [b] [LWASM] made pragmas case insensitive | |
| 69 [b] [LWASM] made EXTERN symbols never be part of a section in symbol table | |
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| 71 | |
| 72 LWASM Version 2.0 | |
| 73 | |
| 74 [*] major rewrite of the entire assembler | |
| 75 [+] object file support | |
| 76 | |
| 77 | |
| 78 LWLINK Version 1.0 | |
| 79 | |
| 80 [*] initial released version |