[Coco] Which version of asm is the most popular?

Kandur k at qdv.pw
Mon Aug 11 20:03:31 EDT 2014


Many thanks Robert, for your help.
Finally the old LR-Tech Super Board source code from 1983 
is assembled  error free, on new hard and software, 
except the non-case-sensitive old assembler ASM,  you sent me. 

http://qdv.pw/coco/?p=236 

Kandur (a happy camper again :)

Monday, August 11, 2014, 1:24:11 PM, you wrote:
> To all those who frequently assemble OS-9 programs, which version of asm do you 
> like the most, the current case sensitive one or the previous one that did not 
> care if upper or lower case was used?

> This just became a significant problem when Kandur tried to assemble some old 
> code. The source code assumed there was no case sensitivity but the current 
> NitrOS-9 asm is case sensitive. Naturally Kandur could not get his code to 
> assemble and the errors reported by asm were very misleading.

> ex.
> type equ devic+objct
> the error given was
> **** Error: undefined name
> 00006 E 0000      type   equ  devic    objct

> Note that the + sign is missing and makes you think that somehow that sign was 
> part of the problem.

> Robert


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