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In message <5ddcc2e651.cferris@cferris.freeuk.com>
       cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid wrote:

> In message <4e0026af$0$14652$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr>
>           Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On 20/06/2011 21:40, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > 
> > > I thought about supporting SWI names, but finally decided against it
> > > (for no particularly good reason, I think...).
> > 
> [snip]
> 
> ASM V 5.04 Mar 2004 (Nick Roberts
> 
> Errm - It seems to work with "OS_Exit" etc here - very handy.

Oops. I did indeed end up putting it in, but it's so long ago I'd
forgotten...

> > >> Tried it with a smallish prog 1.5Mb - 14Mins about 800 errors :-(
> > > 1.5MB of source code in a single file isn't what I'd call smallish,
> > > but YMMV.
> > 
> 
> PD4 is just under 10Mb text file - some other files are bigger.
> 
> Seems to multi-task - but it seems way slower than ObjAsm :-(
> 
> Perhaps a Faster IDE interface would help & more RAM - 64Mbytes here.
> 
> Might be interesting to compare times with the Iyonix!
> 
> 
> > 14 minutes - I make that around 110KiB/minute. Doesn't that seem a 
> > little slow?
> > 
> > 
> > > ADRL is on the list of things to look at,
> > 
> > It doesn't support ADRL?!? I could have sworn it did... maybe I used
> > the  LDR-from-a-local-pointer-word thingy instead?
> > 
> 
> It talks about ADRL in the help file - Perhaps a MACRO could be made up
> to handle this.
> 
> From help file 
> (New pseudo-op 'MVL', and 'L' variant of ADR (i.e.ADRL))

Another one of those embarrassing moments....

This is (somewhat) forgiveable, as I had a disc crash and lost the
latest version of the help file(s). Luckily, I had a backup of all the
source code, but not the documentation.

> > > It was always intended to use the standard Acorn linker for this.
> > > Again, I though of providing a switch to output an absolute or a
> > > Utility, but unfortuntely it's quite a lot of work
> > 
> 
> Seem to think there was another linker prog 'DRLinker'?

Never used it, I'm afraid.

> I see that ASM is written in 'C' - a 486 version :-|

C is God's Own Computer Language, just as VMS is God's Own OS.

-- 
Nick Roberts           tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk           

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.

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Modifying a file cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2011-06-19 13:52 +0100
  Re: Modifying a file Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-06-19 16:12 +0200
    Re: Modifying a file Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-19 18:11 +0200
      Re: Modifying a file Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2011-06-19 17:57 +0100
      Re: Modifying a file Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-19 18:53 +0100
        Re: Modifying a file Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-19 23:08 +0200
        Re: Modifying a file "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-06-26 21:01 +0100
      Re: Modifying a file Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-06-20 00:04 +0100
    Re: Modifying a file cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2011-06-20 10:54 +0100
      Re: Modifying a file Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-06-20 23:01 +0200
  Re: Modifying a file Nick Roberts <tigger@orpheusinternet.co.uk> - 2011-06-19 16:39 +0100
    Re: Modifying a file cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2011-06-20 11:28 +0100
      Re: Modifying a file Nick Roberts <tigger@orpheusinternet.co.uk> - 2011-06-20 20:40 +0100
        Re: Modifying a file Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-21 07:05 +0200
          Re: Modifying a file cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2011-06-21 10:53 +0100
            Re: Modifying a file Nick Roberts <tigger@orpheusinternet.co.uk> - 2011-06-21 20:03 +0100
              Re: Modifying a file Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-22 19:27 +0200
                Re: Modifying a file Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2011-06-22 22:33 +0100
                Re: Modifying a file Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-23 17:50 +0200
                Re: Modifying a file jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2011-07-04 13:00 -0700
  Re: Modifying a file JussiJ <jussij@zeusedit.com> - 2011-06-20 18:55 -0700

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