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74 >Chapter 1. Introduction</H1
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76 >The LW tool chain provides utilities for building binaries for MC6809 and
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77 HD6309 CPUs. The tool chain includes a cross-assembler and a cross-linker
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88 >For a long time, I have had an interest in creating an operating system for
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89 the Coco3. I finally started working on that project around the beginning of
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90 2006. I had a number of assemblers I could choose from. Eventually, I settled
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91 on one and started tinkering. After a while, I realized that assembler was not
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92 going to be sufficient due to lack of macros and issues with forward references.
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93 Then I tried another which handled forward references correctly but still did
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94 not support macros. I looked around at other assemblers and they all lacked
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95 one feature or another that I really wanted for creating my operating system.</P
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97 >The solution seemed clear at that point. I am a fair programmer so I figured
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98 I could write an assembler that would do everything I wanted an assembler to
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99 do. Thus the LWASM probject was born. After more than two years of on and off
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100 work, version 1.0 of LWASM was released in October of 2008.</P
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102 >As the aforementioned operating system project progressed further, it became
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103 clear that while assembling the whole project through a single file was doable,
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104 it was not practical. When I found myself playing some fancy games with macros
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105 in a bid to simulate sections, I realized I needed a means of assembling
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106 source files separately and linking them later. This spawned a major development
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107 effort to add an object file support to LWASM. It also spawned the LWLINK
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108 project to provide a means to actually link the files.</P
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