[Coco] Unit tests on an 8 bit machine

[John Murphy]

“all the other CPUs” it supports”??
It only supports the 6809 and the Hitachi clone, the 6309.
“And ... it's a SEVEN pass assembler?”
Not as far as I can tell. The docs only mention first and second passes.
“but it uses Mercurial for source control”
If you are only using it rather than hacking on it, that doesn’t really matter.
And source tarballs for every version going back to 2011 are on the www.lwtools.ca web page.


John Murphy





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Subject: Re: [Coco] Unit tests on an 8 bit machine


  I used to use A09 by L. C. Benschop, but that was pretty minimalistic (and
the code quality could be better).  I only recently heard of LWTools, and it
does seem nice, but it uses Mercurial for source control, and I don't.  So
there's that.  Also, I don't need support for all the other CPUs it
supports.  And I have a few quibbles with the code, like hiding function
declarations behind a macro (makes it harder for tools like tags to properly
index the code).  And ... it's a SEVEN pass assembler?