[Coco] Which version of asm is the most popular?
Robert Gault
robert.gault at att.net
Mon Aug 11 16:24:11 EDT 2014
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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