Section 3: Assembler
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92 Plus Sierra C Assembler Reference Manual
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Beta Version February 2, 2001
3.1.3. Notational Conventions
The notational conventions used for syntactic descriptions in the assembler
section are shown in Table 3.1. They apply to all syntactic descriptions, unless
otherwise stated.
Syntax Semantics
{ } (Curly Braces) Enclosed items are required
[ ] (Square Brackets) Enclosed items are optional
| (Vertical Bar) Separated items are alternatives
. . .
(Horizontal Ellipsis) Preceding item can be repeated zero or more
times on the same line
.
.
.
(Vertical Ellipsis) Preceding item can be repeated zero or more
times on successive lines
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Programming examples
italics
Item is to be replaced with an actual item
Table 3.1: Notational Conventions
Throughout this section, the assembler directives for
asm68
are shown in
lower-case characters, while those unique to
asm68k
are shown in uppercase.
This is done merely to aid in recognition and to avoid confusion. Both
assemblers, in fact, allow directives to be written in either lowercase or
uppercase characters. The
asm68k
directives shown in lowercase and beginning
with a period ( . ) are extensions to the Motorola M68000 Resident Structured
Assembler. The additional directives are taken from
asm68
and are needed to
allow
asm68k
to support the assembly code generated by the Sierra Systems
compiler. When a directive is referenced from within a common part of the
document, the names of both assemblers’ directives are shown, separated by a
slash (e.g., .
include / INCLUDE
where
.include
is the
asm68
directive and
INCLUDE
is the
asm68k
directive).
3.2. Invocation
This section describes the command line syntax for invoking the Sierra Systems
assemblers. It also includes descriptions of the command line options, file
naming conventions, and file inclusion environment variables.
Typically, the TI
FLASH
Studio will handle all invocations of the assembler, using
the correct command line flags required to produce TI-89 / TI-92 Plus apps or
ASMs. The following discussion of the command line syntax and flags is included
for developers who may wish to use either assembler directly from the command
line or create their own makefile.
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