[Coco] CCASM, CASM, MAMOU, EDTASM

[Roger Taylor]

I made a mistake in my explanation of how CCASM produces optimized 
indexed instructions.

< and > are used to force 8-bit and 16-bit operands/offsets such as:

lda <symbol,pcr  ; force 8-bit offset
lda >symbol,pcr  ; force 16-bit offset

While the following will result in an automatic 5-bit, 8-bit, or 
16-bit operand/offset.  I think that EDTASM generates an 8-bit offset 
sometimes when a 5-bit offset is possible, and could even generate a 
16-bit offset (the safest asumption to prevent phasing errors) when 
doing "forward references" to labels and symbols.  That is, 
referencing a label that has not yet been defined in the source during pass 1 !

To the best of my recollection, CCASM can still generate 5-bit or 
8-bit offsets for forward references.

-- 
Roger Taylor