[Coco] cc6809 project

[jdaggett at gate.net]

To me the requirement of having semicolons after the label field 
and before the comment field is all in how the assembler is written 
and how selective the writer is. 

Yes is does make for a slightly better reading code, but really it is 
immaterial as to what the separator is following the label field and 
the separator proceeding the comment field.

If you want to really make nice readable code then do something 
like this


label    equ    *
           code starts here

james


On 23 Mar 2005 at 6:32, Mannequin* wrote:

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> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:07:46 -0600
> "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mar 22, 2005, at 8:50 PM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> > 
> > > Boisy
> > >
> > > I concurr that all in one assemblers are nice if y ou are working
> > > on multiple processors. For the COCO at least now is but basically
> > > two.
> > >
> > > What do you mean be "modern Assembly format"?
> > 
> > Well, I've noticed that newer assemblers have lines like:
> > 
> > label: lda #44 ; comment
> > 
> > That is, the label always has a semicolon following it, and the
> > comment field always starts with a semicolon.  The CoCo assemblers
> > relaxed that restriction quite a bit.
> 
> I would think that you would need to support the old format as well as
> the new. Maybe make the old format depreciated and never remove it
> (with the appropriate warnings during compile.) This way, those who
> want to keep the older style can, and those who are learning fresh
> from either Barden or someone else (yes, I know it's not quite the
> same as OS-9 assembly) can use the older code until they learn better.
> 
> Just my $0.00. :)
> 
> -M.
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