Re: [cc65] ca65: Why doesn't this zero-apge override work?

On 2012-05-24, at 13:47, Agent Friday wrote:

> Since this works (forcing absolute addressing on known ZP address):
>
> FOO = $12
>
>         LDA  A:FOO
>
> I'm having a hard time seeing which the following (forcing zero-page
> addressing on a symbol of yet-unknown size) does not:
>
>         LDA  Z:FOO
>
> FOO = $12
>
> This generates an Error: illegal addressing mode.  It seems clear
> that the Z: prefix is recognized as an addressing mode specifier,
> but... doesn't seem to do what you'd think?


I think the forward declaration is a problem. I recall discussing  
similar thing with UZ some time ago. Check if you get warning when the  
forced Z: is omitted (this would be result of my discussion) and if  
you get the same if the declaration of FOO is _before_ its first use.

-- 
SD!
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