[Coco] mamou syntax question.

[Roger Taylor]

At 03:59 PM 7/1/2011, you wrote:
>Ok so I'm trying to setup a table of words (FDB) and a count of the 
>number of words, it's a set of new basic commands, so the words are 
>the pointers to the comands and the count is the new command count 
>in the command stub
>
>So I have something like :
>
>; Stub for our new commands
>;
>         FCB     CmdCount        ; No of commands
>         FDB     CmdNames        ; command list
>         FDB     CmdDispatch     ; command dispatch routine
>         FCB     $00             ; No of functions
>         FDB     FuncNames       ; function list
>         FDB     FuncDispatch    ; function dispatch table
>
>
>and then later on :
>
>; Command routine pointers
>CommandDispatchTable
>         FDB     Cmd1
>         FDB     Cmd2
>         FDB     Cmd3
>
>CmdCount        EQU             (*-CommandDispatchTable) / 2
>
>However no matter how I define CmdCount, it gets set to the number 
>of bytes in the table not the number of words.
>
>So what is the correct syntax ?


If this is a DOS program, why not try a more powerful cross assembler 
like CCASM?





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~ Roger Taylor