[Z80asm-devel] [patch #3405] Add DEFM for Zilog compatibility

[H. Peter Anvin]

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                H. Peter Anvin <address@hidden>
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None of the assemblers I've ever used have behaved in that way, and I've used 
at least a handful of different Z80 assemblers.  If this was ever the case, it 
would probably have been a platform-specific thing, that should perhaps be 
considered as a command-line option in the future (if so, it's a good reason to 
add the pseudo-op, though.)  I don't believe it should ever be default, though.







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URL: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=3405>
Project: Z80 assembler
Submitted by: H. Peter Anvin
On: Thu 09/30/2004 at 19:40

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Priority:  1 - Later
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Summary:  Add DEFM for Zilog compatibility

Original Submission:  Zilog assemblers use DEFB for byte values and DEFM for 
strings.  z80asm already supports mixing and matching these the way x86 
assemblers do, this is a good thing.  This patch simply makes DEFM/DM an alias 
for DEFB/DB.


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Date: Thu 09/30/2004 at 22:16       By: H. Peter Anvin <hpanvin>
None of the assemblers I've ever used have behaved in that way, and I've used 
at least a handful of different Z80 assemblers.  If this was ever the case, it 
would probably have been a platform-specific thing, that should perhaps be 
considered as a command-line option in the future (if so, it's a good reason to 
add the pseudo-op, though.)  I don't believe it should ever be default, though.


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Date: Thu 09/30/2004 at 21:33       By: Bas Wijnen <shevek>
I remember defm from somewhere, but I thought it was supposed to set the 7th 
bit of the last byte?






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