Re: [cc65] ca65 for stand-alone asm projects

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:16:58PM -0700, Agent Friday wrote:
> Hmmm... A simple hack, that prepends what amounts to a "file format"
> detail to the code.  As hacks go, this isn't a huge deal because
> it's small enough, and once you know the trick it's not too much to
> swallow.

I don't think that the discussion is really worth it. With the efforts that
went into this discussion, several hundred people could have easily added
".addr *+2" to their source files.

I do happily admit that better and/or more documentation would be helpful. But
making file format discussion proposals and other stuff out of it is more than
it's worth. There are far more serious problems and possible improvements that
don't have such an easy workaround as this one.

> I'm not pushing this as something that really needs to happen soon,
> but if there are those who would like to toss the idea around, I
> created a wiki page (basically intended to be temporary).  That OK Uz?
> http://wiki.cc65.org/doku.php?id=output_file_format_talk

Please don't do that. Discussions and talk should go to the mailing list or
into private mail. What you're actually doing is using the Wiki as some sort
of discussion forum, and I did intentionally not create a cc65 forum. I know
that there are different opinions about forums, but I do prefer mail because
it is pushed (comes to me) instead of me having to pull it. If I'm involved in
several forum discussions, I have to check each of these forii in regular
intervals and this is not going to happen. You might call me old fashioned if
you want to, but that's the way it is :-)

> >  That "technique" above *is* documented under the headline `Porting
> >  sources from other assemblers <http://www.cc65.org/doc/ca65-17.html>`_
> >  in the ca65 documentation.
>
> Indeed it is.  Thanks for pointing it out.  Perhaps I missed that
> because it's mostly explained under the heading "TASS", which I have
> never used.

There's even another piece of information here

   http://wiki.cc65.org/doku.php?id=cc65:using_ca65_with_foreign_source

that could go into the mentioned chapter in the docs, so the information is at
least in one place. Maybe someone could complete this in whe Wiki what has
been started by Stefan Haubenthal, so I can move it to the docs?

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de
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