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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/docs/manual/c10.html Sat Aug 27 00:23:19 2011 -0600 @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> +<HTML +><HEAD +><TITLE +>Introduction</TITLE +><META +NAME="GENERATOR" +CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK +REL="HOME" +TITLE="LW Tool Chain" +HREF="index.html"><LINK +REL="PREVIOUS" +TITLE="LW Tool Chain" +HREF="index.html"><LINK +REL="NEXT" +TITLE="Output Formats" +HREF="c18.html"></HEAD +><BODY +CLASS="CHAPTER" +BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" +TEXT="#000000" +LINK="#0000FF" +VLINK="#840084" +ALINK="#0000FF" +><DIV +CLASS="NAVHEADER" +><TABLE +SUMMARY="Header navigation table" +WIDTH="100%" +BORDER="0" +CELLPADDING="0" +CELLSPACING="0" +><TR +><TH +COLSPAN="3" +ALIGN="center" +>LW Tool Chain</TH +></TR +><TR +><TD +WIDTH="10%" +ALIGN="left" +VALIGN="bottom" +><A +HREF="index.html" +ACCESSKEY="P" +>Prev</A +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="80%" +ALIGN="center" +VALIGN="bottom" +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="10%" +ALIGN="right" +VALIGN="bottom" +><A +HREF="c18.html" +ACCESSKEY="N" +>Next</A +></TD +></TR +></TABLE +><HR +ALIGN="LEFT" +WIDTH="100%"></DIV +><DIV +CLASS="CHAPTER" +><H1 +><A +NAME="AEN10" +></A +>Chapter 1. Introduction</H1 +><P +>The LW tool chain provides utilities for building binaries for MC6809 and +HD6309 CPUs. The tool chain includes a cross-assembler and a cross-linker +which support several styles of output.</P +><DIV +CLASS="SECTION" +><H1 +CLASS="SECTION" +><A +NAME="AEN13" +>1.1. History</A +></H1 +><P +>For a long time, I have had an interest in creating an operating system for +the Coco3. I finally started working on that project around the beginning of +2006. I had a number of assemblers I could choose from. Eventually, I settled +on one and started tinkering. After a while, I realized that assembler was not +going to be sufficient due to lack of macros and issues with forward references. +Then I tried another which handled forward references correctly but still did +not support macros. I looked around at other assemblers and they all lacked +one feature or another that I really wanted for creating my operating system.</P +><P +>The solution seemed clear at that point. I am a fair programmer so I figured +I could write an assembler that would do everything I wanted an assembler to +do. Thus the LWASM probject was born. After more than two years of on and off +work, version 1.0 of LWASM was released in October of 2008.</P +><P +>As the aforementioned operating system project progressed further, it became +clear that while assembling the whole project through a single file was doable, +it was not practical. When I found myself playing some fancy games with macros +in a bid to simulate sections, I realized I needed a means of assembling +source files separately and linking them later. This spawned a major development +effort to add an object file support to LWASM. It also spawned the LWLINK +project to provide a means to actually link the files.</P +></DIV +></DIV +><DIV +CLASS="NAVFOOTER" +><HR +ALIGN="LEFT" +WIDTH="100%"><TABLE +SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" +WIDTH="100%" +BORDER="0" +CELLPADDING="0" +CELLSPACING="0" +><TR +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="left" +VALIGN="top" +><A +HREF="index.html" +ACCESSKEY="P" +>Prev</A +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="34%" +ALIGN="center" +VALIGN="top" +><A +HREF="index.html" +ACCESSKEY="H" +>Home</A +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="right" +VALIGN="top" +><A +HREF="c18.html" +ACCESSKEY="N" +>Next</A +></TD +></TR +><TR +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="left" +VALIGN="top" +>LW Tool Chain</TD +><TD +WIDTH="34%" +ALIGN="center" +VALIGN="top" +> </TD +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="right" +VALIGN="top" +>Output Formats</TD +></TR +></TABLE +></DIV +></BODY +></HTML +> \ No newline at end of file