Short:    PhxAss V4.32 68xxx Macro Assembler
Author:   frank@phoenix.owl.de (Frank Wille)
Uploader: frank@phoenix.owl.de
Version:  4.32
Type:     dev/asm
Replaces: dev/asm/PhxAss430*
Requires: OS2.04

PhxAss V4.32 is a highly optimizing macro assembler for Motorola's 680x0
CPUs, 6888x FPUs and 68851 MMU (of course, the 030, 040 and 060 MMUs are
also supported). It requires OS2.04 (V37) and 1 MB RAM as minimum.

Most important features:
o PhxAss is FREEWARE.
o Fast: 15000-30000 lines per minute with standard Amigas, 50000-350000
  with A4000/040 (even more with a 060 :).
o Resident.
o Symbolic and Source Level Debugging. Possibility to enable Source
  Level Debugging for high level languages too. 
o Automatic generation of executables (if possible).
o Creates relocatable Amiga-DOS objects or absolute code (written into
  a file (raw or Motorola S-Format), into memory or directly onto disk).
o Small Code and Small Data support (also support for __MERGED sections).
o Listing file, Cross Reference Listing, Equates file.
o Complete floating point support: You may use complex floating point
  expressions, including float functions (sine, logarithm, square root,
  power, etc.), everywhere in your source, e.g. defining float EQUates or
  SETs.
o Switches for nine different optimizations.
o Locale symbols (xxx$ and .xxx type).
o Up to 36 macro parameters.
o Support for Motorola's old and new operand style (even in 68000 mode).
o Use of locale.library (english, german, swedish, italian, danish,
  hungarian and french ).
o Nearly all directives of the most popular assemblers like Seka, DevPac or
  AS (Aztec) are supported. Example: INCBIN, INCDIR, CODE_C, REPT, RS,
  RSRESET, EQUR, REG, OFFSET, XDEF, XREF, PUBLIC, ...

You will find two different versions of PhxAss in this distribution:
1. PhxAss: The standard 680x0,FPU,MMU macro assembler.
2. GigaPhxAss: Identical to PhxAss, but source codes are not limited to
   65535 lines. Quite useful for assembling huge Reassembler outputs.


CHANGES SINCE PHXASS V4.30 (last Aminet release):

Fixed Bugs:
o The support for the ASCII-characters $c0-$fe in symbol names didn't
  work very well, especially in the case when a symbol was introduced
  by such a character.
o ([xrefsym,PC],od) generated wrong informations in the HUNK_EXT block.
o PhxAss generated an unnecessary line feed in the cross reference listing
  after exactly six references.
o When the DC-Align option was active, a label in the same line like
  the DC directive could get a wrong value.
o Hex-, binary- and octal constants without a single digit didn't
  invoke an error message.
o PhxAss displays a warning, when a near addressing mode has come out
  of range while 020+ code generation is enabled (68000/010 mode would
  cause an error message anyway). 

New Features:
o The XREF sub type EXT_RELREF32 ($88) for 32-bit PC-relative references is
  supported. External symbols may be used in really all addressing modes.
o PhxAss uses buffered I/O (FWrite) for creating the output file.
o PhxAss uses its own buffered I/O routines instead those which the 
  dos.library offers. The size of the buffer is adjustable by the new CLI 
  parameter BUFSIZE/K/N, which defaults to 8192.
o The '%' character is allowed in the middle of a symbol name.
o Macro parameters may have up to 127 characters now.
o The IDNT directives additionally accepts the syntax where the unit
  name is specified in the label field, e.g.:
  unitname	idnt	2,1 testprogram
o For the bit manipulation instructions, like BTST, BCHG, BSET, BCLR, PhxAss
  no longer generates an error but only a warning, if the bit-number is
  out of range.
o Besides #$xxxx, #:xxxx is also allowed in the operand of an FPU in-
  struction, to specify a hexadecimal constant.
o New assembler directives. Structure offset: SO, CLRSO, SETSO.
  Frame offset: FO, CLRFO, SETFO. Code generation: MC680x0.
o PhxAss can generate S-Records of variable length for 16-bit and 32-bit
  addresses, controlled by the new directive STYPE.