Release 2.8.1

Release 2.8.1

Features

• The three-way compare operator <=>.
• The ternary expression a?b:c.
• More performance improvements to the evaluation engine.
• Individual chars in string constants be accessed by index.

Changes

• Subscript expressions allowed for certain illegal values.
• Minor changes to listing output preamble.

Fixes

• Certain directives would error if they were preceded by labels.
• Fixed a defect where assembly bytes in listing output were blank after .relocate directive.

Release 2.8

Release 2.8

Features

• New assignment operators are now supported
  • Along with the .let keyword, the := operator can be used to define and assign values to variables.
  • Variables can also be mutated using compound operators, such as += and &=.
• Added the .label directive for labels back-referenced from .goto directives, which avoids label redefinition errors.
• New flow control command .do ... .whiletrue.
• Enumerations are supported with the .enum keyword.
• Slight performance improvement when referencing and updating label and variable values.

Changes

• Section definintion syntax in config files has changed.
• More improvements to source highlighting in error and warning messages.
• The .target directive is no longer supported.

Fixes

• The .switch directive had some errors.
• Certain expressions in macro parameters were not processing correctly.
• Some math expressions were incorrectly interpreted as conditional expressions.
• Creating string array variables, and assigning variables to individual elements in an string array should work.
• Certain .goto destinations were not being recognized.
• The defect causing the .page directive to throw errors incorrectly has been fixed.
• Certain sections with assembly were not being written to the output.
• The .map keyword is did not behave correctly with string literal arguments.

Release 2.7.0.1

Fixes

• Corrected a bug in the m6809 assembler.

Release 2.7

Release 2.7

Features

• Added a command-line option --allow-overflow to allow sign-overflows in pseudo-op assembly. For instance, `.byte -23, would not error if this option is set.
• Added a command-line option --Wcase-mismatch to warn user of symbol case mismatches.

Changes

• Subroutine calls succeeded immediately by a return instruction will issue a warning.
• Slightly improved error and warning syntax highlighting.

Fixes

• The --error option will now properly output errors to the specified file.
• Certain .Net exceptions were not properly caught in invalid assembly.
• .case directives were not evaluating string constants correctly.
• Fixed the ^^ (raise-to-the-power-of) operation.

Release 2.6.3.4

Release 2.6.3.4

Changes

• Slightly improved the help text for the help command line options, and specific command line errors will now list instead of a generic error.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the format function that would error if it was not the sole expression.

Version 2.6.3.3

Release 2.6.3.3

Changes

• Refactored the IEEE-754-to-CBM conversion routine to be slightly more efficient.

Version 2.6.3.2

W65C02 would not report as a valid CPU mode. This is fixed.

Version 2.6.3.1

Release 2.6.3.1

Added option --enable-branch-always to enable the bra mnemonic for 6502 mode.

Release 2.6.2

Release 2.6.2.1

Features

• Added a sizeof function that returns the size in bytes of the given expression.

Changes

• Labels and instructions can now be parameterized in macro definitions.
• Option -f is a short alternative to --format.

Fixes

• Fixed an error when the output hash would not calculate correctly in certain cases with long addressing enabled.
• Creating config file from options was not naming all properties correctly. This is fixed.
• The help options -h and -? will no longer report being unknown in the help text.

Release 2.6.1.2

Release 2.6.1.2

Features

• Added c64dtv2 CPU type

Fixes

• Adding uninitialized data past 64KiB in long addressing mode was not being handled properly. This has been fixed.