Short:        PhxAss V4.38 68xxx Macro Assembler
Author:       frank@phoenix.owl.de (Frank Wille)
Uploader:     frank@phoenix.owl.de
Type:         dev/asm
Replaces:     dev/asm/PhxAss437*
Version:      4.38
Requires:     OS2.04

PhxAss V4.38 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 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 can 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 ten 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 locale.library usage (english, german, swedish, norwegian, italian,
  danish, dutch, 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, OUTPUT ...
o PhxAss is able to stay resident in memory.

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 V4.37 (last Aminet release):

Fixed Bugs:
o Register symbols were not recognized by IFD/IFND, which had the effect
  that they always seem to be undefined.
o Stronger syntax checking for LSd/ASd/ROd <ea> and for DS/DCB/BLK.
o The size of the base displacement in 020+ addressing mode (bd,Rn,...)
  is already checked in pass 1 now, which solves some of the strange
  "symbol-shifting" bugs in pass 2.
o Typing a function- or cursor key at "do you want to continue (y/n)?"
  left a character in the input buffer.
o Some illegal opcode extensions, like e.g. "ÿ" produced crashes.

New Features:
o EQUR allows a maximum of 16 local register symbol definitions.
o Implemented REM/EREM for AsmOne-compatibility. They work exactly
  like ENDASM/ASM.
o New directive OPTC to be able to modify the optimization flags by a
  numeric expression.
o The special symbol \@ allows 10000 macro invocations instead of 1000.
o PhxOpts is no longer part of PhxAss.