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Allow exporting multiple symbols on a single directive
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date Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:28:40 +0000
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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
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6 [!] critical bug fix - code generation error, etc.
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7 [+] new feature
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8 [-] feature removed
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9 [b] minor bugfix
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10 [ ] general improvement
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14 Version 2.3
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16 [+] added library search path (-L) and library specification (-l) to LWLINK
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17 [+] added ability to specify section base addresses on the command line to
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18 LWLINK (they get prepended to the built in link script)
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19 [+] added ability to output a "linkmap" to lwlink (--map, -m)
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20 [+] added LWEX0 (LWOS simple binary) target to LWLINK
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21 [+] added ability to extract files in LWAR
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22 [+] added ability to "replace" members in LWAR
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23 [+] added support for "sym=expr" in the opcode field; this will define a
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24 global symbol (non-section) if it resolves to a constant
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25 [+] added operator ~ as a prefix operator for a 1s complement in LWASM
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26 [+] allow exporting multiple symbols (export sym,sym,sym...)
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27 [b] arranged for output files for lwasm/lwlink to be removed if the assembly
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28 or linking fails
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29 [ ] DECB output of LWLINK now collapses contiguous output blocks into single
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30 single blocks in the output file; this eliminates the explosion of
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31 preambles that previously occurred
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32 [ ] LWLINK now displays *all* undefined symbols and references instead of
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33 bailing out after the first one
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37 [*] created LWAR to manage library/archive files
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38 [+] cescapes pragma to allow C-style string escapes in FCC, FCS, and FCN
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39 [+] .area alias for SECTION
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40 [+] .globl alias for EXPORT; also accept name of symbol as operand
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41 [+] various compatibility directive aliases for FCB, FDB, FQB, RMB, FCC,
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42 FCS, and FCN
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43 [+] accept "*" has a prefix for base page addressing mode
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44 [+] sections named "bss" or ".bss" in any case are now assumed to be
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45 BSS sections. The "!bss" flag can be used to remove that assumption.
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48 [+] allow "0x" and "0X" as prefixes to identify hexadecimal numbers
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49 [+] added support for a simple library/archive file format to LWLINK
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50 [b] actually show assembly errors when no list requested
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51 [b] pragma and --pragma now actually take multiple pragmas as documented
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55 [*] merged LWLINK (1.0) and LWASM to create LWTOOLS
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56 [+] [LWASM] pragmas can be specified on the command line
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57 [+] [LWASM] undefextern pragma added (undefined symbols treated as external)
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58 [+] documentation
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59 [b] [LWASM] made pragmas case insensitive
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60 [b] [LWASM] made EXTERN symbols never be part of a section in symbol table
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65 [*] major rewrite of the entire assembler
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66 [+] object file support
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