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Chapter 3. Command Line Options

There are some other features of the MRI assembler which are not supported by

as

, typically either

because they are difficult or because they seem of little consequence. Some of these may be supported

in future releases.

EBCDIC strings

EBCDIC strings are not supported.

packed binary coded decimal

Packed binary coded decimal is not supported. This means that the

DC.P

and

DCB.P

pseudo ops

are not supported.

  FEQU

pseudo op

The m68k

FEQU

pseudo op is not supported.

  NOOBJ

pseudo op

The m68k

NOOBJ

pseudo op is not supported.

  OPT

branch control options

The m68k

OPT

branch control options  

B

,

BRS

,

BRB

,

BRL

, and

BRW

  are ignored.

as

automatically

relaxes all branches, whether forward or backward, to an appropriate size, so these options serve no

purpose.

  OPT

list control options

The following m68k

OPT

list control options are ignored:

C

,

CEX

,

CL

,

CRE

,

E

,

G

,

I

,

M

,

MEX

,

MC

,

MD

,

X

.

other

OPT

options

The following m68k

OPT

options are ignored:

NEST

,

O

,

OLD

,

OP

,

P

,

PCO

,

PCR

,

PCS

,

R

.

  OPT D

option is default

The m68k

OPT D

option is the default, unlike the MRI assembler.

OPT NOD

may be used to turn it

off.

  XREF

pseudo op.

The m68k

XREF

pseudo op is ignored.

  .debug

pseudo op

The i960

.debug

pseudo op is not supported.

  .extended

pseudo op

The i960

.extended

pseudo op is not supported.

  .list

pseudo op.

The various options of the i960

.list

pseudo op are not supported.

  .optimize

pseudo op

The i960

.optimize

pseudo op is not supported.

  .output

pseudo op

The i960

.output

pseudo op is not supported.

  .setreal

pseudo op

The i960

.setreal

pseudo op is not supported.