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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andy McFadden
62509d0bd7 Documentation / comment tweaks 2021-09-11 14:12:09 -07:00
Andy McFadden
b43fd07688 Split 2002x-operand-formats test
My original goal was to add a sign-extended decimal format, but that
turned out to be awkward.  It works for data items and instructions
with immediate operands (e.g. "LDA #-1"), but is either wrong or
useless for address operands, since most assemblers treat integers
as 32-bit values.  (LDA -1 is not LDA $FFFF, it's LDA $FFFFFFFF,
which is not useful unless your asm is doing an implicit mod.)

There's also a bit of variability in how assemblers treat negative
values, so I'm shelving the idea for now.  I'm keeping the updated
tests, which are now split into 6502 / 65816 parts.

Also, updated the formatter to output all decimal values as unsigned.
Most assemblers were fine with negative values, but 64tass .dword
insists on positive.  Rather than make the opcode conditional on the
value's range, we now just always output unsigned decimal, which
all current assemblers accept.
2020-06-08 17:47:26 -07:00
Andy McFadden
cd23580cc5 Add junk/align directives
Sometimes there's a bunch of junk in the binary that isn't used for
anything.  Often it's there to make things line up at the start of
a page boundary.

This adds a ".junk" directive that tells the disassembler that it
can safely disregard the contents of a region.  If the region ends
on a power-of-two boundary, an alignment value can be specified.

The assembly source generators will output an alignment directive
when possible, a .fill directive when appropriate, and a .dense
directive when all else fails.  Because we're required to regenerate
the original data file, it's not always possible to avoid generating
a hex dump.
2019-10-18 21:00:28 -07:00