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Various updates to the manual
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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] |
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18 [+] Added includebin directive to include the literal contents of a binary |
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19 file at the current assembly address. [LWASM] |
| 226 | 20 [+] Added || and && as boolean or and boolean and respectively [LWASM] |
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22 Version 2.4 |
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24 [!] Fixed off by one relocation offest for base page external references |
| 221 | 25 generated by lwasm [LWASM] |
| 26 [b] Fixed segfault in "extern" pseudo op and allowed a symbol list as the | |
| 27 operand just like "export" [LWASM] | |
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28 [b] Fixed lack of error when there are extraneous characters at the end |
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29 of the operand. This did not cause incorrect code generation for correct |
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30 code but would silently generate incorrect code for some easy errors |
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31 [+] 8 bit immediate operands can now be external references [LWASM] |
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| 180 | 33 Version 2.3 |
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| 216 | 35 [*] added support for compiling using MinGW and added portions of gnulib |
| 36 to support argp, among other things. Yah! A Windows build! | |
| 187 | 37 [+] added library search path (-L) and library specification (-l) to LWLINK |
| 38 [+] added ability to specify section base addresses on the command line to | |
| 180 | 39 LWLINK (they get prepended to the built in link script) |
| 187 | 40 [+] added ability to output a "linkmap" to lwlink (--map, -m) |
| 41 [+] added LWEX0 (LWOS simple binary) target to LWLINK | |
| 188 | 42 [+] added ability to extract files in LWAR |
| 43 [+] added ability to "replace" members in LWAR | |
| 190 | 44 [+] added support for "sym=expr" in the opcode field; this will define a |
| 45 global symbol (non-section) if it resolves to a constant | |
| 191 | 46 [+] added operator ~ as a prefix operator for a 1s complement in LWASM |
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47 [+] allow exporting multiple symbols (export sym,sym,sym...) |
| 216 | 48 [+] allow extern references in base page addresing mode, possibly buggy |
| 49 still (LWASM) | |
| 50 [+] handle 8 bit external references, possibly buggy still (LWLINK) | |
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51 [+] arranged for unused members of library files (archives) to be ignored |
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52 during linking to keep the final size of the binary down (LWLINK) |
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53 [b] arranged for output files for lwasm/lwlink to be removed if the assembly |
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54 or linking fails |
| 209 | 55 [b] fixed incorrect handling of library search path which caused only the |
| 56 last directory to ever matter | |
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57 [ ] DECB output of LWLINK now collapses contiguous output blocks into single |
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60 [ ] LWLINK now displays *all* undefined symbols and references instead of |
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61 bailing out after the first one |
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| 166 | 63 Version 2.2 |
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| 171 | 65 [*] created LWAR to manage library/archive files |
| 166 | 66 [+] cescapes pragma to allow C-style string escapes in FCC, FCS, and FCN |
| 67 [+] .area alias for SECTION | |
| 68 [+] .globl alias for EXPORT; also accept name of symbol as operand | |
| 69 [+] various compatibility directive aliases for FCB, FDB, FQB, RMB, FCC, | |
| 70 FCS, and FCN | |
| 71 [+] accept "*" has a prefix for base page addressing mode | |
| 168 | 72 [+] sections named "bss" or ".bss" in any case are now assumed to be |
| 73 BSS sections. The "!bss" flag can be used to remove that assumption. | |
| 169 | 74 [+] ignore lines starting with # to permit C pre-processor output to be used |
| 75 as input to lwasm | |
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76 [+] allow "0x" and "0X" as prefixes to identify hexadecimal numbers |
| 171 | 77 [+] added support for a simple library/archive file format to LWLINK |
| 166 | 78 [b] actually show assembly errors when no list requested |
| 79 [b] pragma and --pragma now actually take multiple pragmas as documented | |
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| 148 | 81 Version 2.1 |
| 82 | |
| 83 [*] merged LWLINK (1.0) and LWASM to create LWTOOLS | |
| 84 [+] [LWASM] pragmas can be specified on the command line | |
| 85 [+] [LWASM] undefextern pragma added (undefined symbols treated as external) | |
| 86 [+] documentation | |
| 87 [b] [LWASM] made pragmas case insensitive | |
| 88 [b] [LWASM] made EXTERN symbols never be part of a section in symbol table | |
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| 90 | |
| 91 LWASM Version 2.0 | |
| 92 | |
| 93 [*] major rewrite of the entire assembler | |
| 94 [+] object file support | |
| 95 | |
| 96 | |
| 97 LWLINK Version 1.0 | |
| 98 | |
| 99 [*] initial released version |