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xa-2.1.0
* Rewrite of command line option handling to better look like
usual (cc) options.
* Removed ^M from all files.
* Removed all external declarations to header files,
and made all static functions static.
| Now compiles almost without warning with 'gcc -W -Wall'.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 31 Oct, 1996
xa-2.1.0a
* Introduced concept of code relocation. Now each label being set to
the program counter is a 'pointer', that gets an entry in a
relocation table. Simple arithmetic operations are allowed. The
relocation table is still just printed unsortedly.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 31 Oct, 1996
xa-2.1.0b
* Produces some preliminary kind of relocatable file, including header
etc. Problems -- relocation table does as if file is assembled for
address 0. Need
a) a better way to set program counter.
b) pseudo opcodes for distinguishing segments.
c) a way to temporarily disable relocation.
d) a way to include extra headers and options into the file.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 31 Oct, 1996
* Assembler now produces a relocatable file format, as described in
the file ``fileformat.txt''. Temporarily disabling relocation is with
the ``*=value'' directive, while switching back to relocation mode
goes with ``*='' (without value). New pseudo opcodes ``.text'',
``.data'', ``.bss'', ``.zero'' switch between the segments.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 02 Nov, 1996
xa-2.1.0e
* There was a bug in the arithmetic routine that had set all pointer
to the text segment, if something was added.
* There also was a bug in the loader when actually using options.
* A new pseudo opcode was added -- ``.fopt''.
| Works like ``.byte'', but puts these bytes in a file option.
| The length in the file option is automagically set. ``.fopt''
| may appear anywhere in the file, but it should be at the
| beginning | (might be mandatory in a later version).
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 06 Nov, 1996
xa-2.1.0f
* Added a command line switch ``-M'' to ignore colons in a comment
after a semicolon.
* Without it, a colon separates complete mnemonics, including
the semicolon comment.
| Well, actually this switch is a ``MASM'' compatibility switch, and
will surely be expanded someday, when I get more info on MASM.
* Now ``*'' and ``='' can be separated for the definition
of the program counter and ``.byte'' is also accepted.
This makes it more MASM compatible. ".end" is ignored.
Still missing is ``.include''.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 11 Nov, 1996
xa-2.1.0g
* Started working on ``official'' o65 fileformat.
If there are no undefined labels, and no relocated code
is embedded in absolute code, the thing should work.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 21 Dec, 1996
xa-2.1.1
* ``.dsb'' now has an _optional_ parameter ``fillbyte''.
* Undefined references are now put into the relocation table
(i.e. handled correctly) if the ``-c'' option is given.
* The file format conforms to o65 version 1 file format.
* Embedding absolute in relocatable code and vice versa is buggy...
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 21 Dec, 1996
xa-2.1.1a
* Embedding absolute code in relocatable seems to work now.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 21 Dec, 1996
xa-2.1.1e
* The option to embed relocatable code in absolute code has been
dropped. Therefore the command line options
``-A'' (make it romable), ``-b?'' (set segment start addresses),
and ``-G'' (omit exported globals from file) have been added.
* Internally, the whole thing has been made dynamic; except for the
preprocessor (and the storage between pass1 and pass2), everything
uses dynamically allocated tables. m_alloc, which had been
introduced long time ago because of the buggy malloc
on the Atari ST is gone now!
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 22 Dec, 1996
xa-2.1.1f
* Added the ``-a'' and ``-A'' options to file65, so that it can now
print the start addresses for following files in the ROM when making
romable code.
* Added shell (bash) script ``mkrom.sh'' that assembles a given list
of files and builds a ROMable file. The first two bytes are single
linked list pointers, and then comes the file.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 02 Jan, 1997
xa-2.1.1g
* Added the file ``reloc65'', to relocate o65 files without
reassembling them.
* Fixed quite some bugs in xa (segment numbering in the globals list
and switched low/high byte relocation entry type in relocation
table. Now conforms to documentation, i.e. fileformat.txt)
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 03 Jan, 1997
xa-2.1.2
* Added ``ld65'', a simple linker for o65 files.
* Another bug in xa fixed now.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 04 Jan, 1997
xa-2.1.3
* Allows to use ``.data'' etc in absolute mode, too. No relocation
entries are generated then. Segment start can be set with ``-b?''
command line options, though. Also the data segment is discarded
with this method! This allows to use the normal ``.data'' etc
syntax even when assembling a ROM (which is done in absolute mode.)
* Fixed a bug where ``.dsb'' in a data segment didn't fill with the
right value
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 25 Mar, 1997
xa-2.1.3e
* Added preprocessor continuation lines, and .block and .bend
pseudo-opcodes (They map to ``.('' and ``.)'' respectively.)
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 27 Jul, 1997
xa-2.1.4
* Do not leave output file around after an error -- this is
better for ``make''.
* Also it seems to have settled for a while, so I can release
a new version.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 11 Sep, 1997
xa-2.1.4c
* Fixed a nasty bug that prevented correct relocation table
entries when a ``label2=label1'' contruct was used and
``label2'' was accessed.
* Added ``-I'' option.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 30 Dec, 1997
xa-2.1.4d
* fixed align code. Now inserts NOP opcodes into text segment, and
sets file mode appropriately.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 26 Jan, 1998
xa-2.1.4e
* Changed o65 fileformat and adopted it in xa.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 26 Jan, 1998
xa-2.1.4g
* Fix handling of !zeropageaddress, that was broken (did not result
in absolute address, but gave error message.)
* Add cross reference list to labels if switched on on command line.
* Fix the filename when multiple files are given on the command line
(used to give the first filename for all errors in second pass.)
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 25 Nov, 1998
xa-2.1.4h
* In file65 added support for undefined labels and globals,
also for (some known) file options.
* Fix a preprocessor bug.
-- André Fachat <a.fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de> 12 Dec, 1998
xa-2.2.0-p1-1
* Update COPYING to the latest version (Y2K-fixed + new address to GNU)
* Lots of fixes to the Makefiles
* Cleaned up the structure of the TODO file
* Added manual-pages for file65, ld65, printcbm, reloc65, uncpk, and xa
* Commented out LIB-flags -lm, -lcurses and -ltermcap,
since they are all unused
* Added `--help' and `--version' to all binaries
* Removed `-h', `-?' and `-v' options where applicable
* Created a file containing the version-function; version.h
* Moved common macros to a separate file; xad.h
* Restructuring of printcbm to become more readable
* Added ifndef/define/endif traps to all header-files
* Fixed a few typos
* Renamed romadr to romaddr
* Renamed all functions matching *such* to *search*
* Fixed all warnings
* Cleaned up all header-files
* Reformatted xa.log
-- David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> 20 Aug, 2002
xa-2.3.0
* Version number jump for all the unofficial xa's out there
* Fixed addressing bugs for @, ! and completed 65816 merge
Thanks to David for the report
* Moderate legibility overhaul to xat.c (will continue on this)
* More compiler warnings corrected
Thanks to David for the report
* man files completed
* Documentation updated
* Last line bug corrected (where last line not assembled if no newline)
Thanks to silverdr for the report
* ld65 is now ldo65 to avoid conflicts with cc65 package
* Post-defined labels work better, or at least somewhat (no longer attempts
to optimize in pass 2 and generate bad code). Can be forced with `
Thanks to silverdr for the report
* Makefile bugs multiplied
* @ now mostly obligatory for 24-bit addressing
-- Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser@floodgap.com> 2 Apr, 2006
xa-??
* Introduced switch to convert values in quotes to different character
sets. Currently supported are ASCII (default) and PETSCII
* Fixed some quote bugs
-- André Fachat <afachat@gmx.de> 23 Dec, 2006