[Coco] Re: ASM flags, ignore case.

[Paul T. Barton]

Rodney,

OK, so that's one sticky finger
wiped on the wall for you!

Used:
asm filename u o=/fullpathname_dumb!/doh_etc

It works great, fixed the bobo's, thanks.

Any other "opt"'s to use?

Paul

--- Rodney V Hamilton
<Rodney_Hamilton at GBRonline.com> wrote:
> 
> In article <410011F1.3050600 at worldnet.att.net>,
> Robert Gault says...
> >Paul T. Barton wrote:
> >> OK, 
> >> 
> >> I'm using the new ASM,
> >> it's giving me typo errors.
> >> 
> >> I want to turn off ASM case sensitivity,
> >> how do I do that, please?
> >> 
> >> Paul
> >
> >U should force upper case, -U should set case
> specific. Looks default is 
> >case specific. So, asm filename u           
> should do what you want.
> 
> That's right, the U option defaults to OFF
> (-U).
> This was deliberate, to make it easier to catch
> case errors early.
> I guess it worked...  <wink>
> 
> So, as Robert said, add the U flag to the
> command line to revert to
> the old uppercase-only mode.  If you still get
> label errors, they are
> probably misspelling typos, not just case
> errors.  Eventually you'll
> want to fix the case errors too.
> 
> 
> You'll like this latest ASM in the v3.2.2
> release.  New stuff:
> 
> It handles long symbol names by storing only
> the first 8 chars, so the
> first 8 chars MUST be unique, but ALL chars in
> the symbol must be valid.
> (ie: 1st char=letter,
> rest=letter,digit,dollar,period,underscore)
> 
> At least one space separates all listing output
> fields (needed to handle
> long symbol names) and the comment field is now
> auto-aligned regardless
> of source file spacing.  The width option (W)
> is limited to 132 max and
> the internal buffers are checked to prevent
> overruns.
> 
> TFR and the 6309 reg-to-reg ops allow R16->R8,
> but you'll get a warning
> flag as a reminder that the results are
> processor-dependent.  You should
> NOT use this 'feature' in production code
> without heavy testing.
> 
> Rodney
> 
> 
> 
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