Mercurial > hg > index.cgi

diff docs/manual/c13.html @ 324:b30091890d62

Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision number or hash, or revset expression.
Add documentation of the new hex output formats. Thanks to text contributed by Tom LeMense, the manual now includes documentation of the hex formats he contributed. This also includes some updated text on the ORG directive. Only minor editorial changes vary the text from Tom's original.
author William Astle <lost@l-w.ca>
date Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:10:13 -0700
parents
children
line wrap: on
line diff
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/docs/manual/c13.html	Tue Mar 04 23:10:13 2014 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<HTML
+><HEAD
+><TITLE
+>Introduction</TITLE
+><META
+NAME="GENERATOR"
+CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK
+REL="HOME"
+TITLE="LW Tool Chain"
+HREF="index.html"><LINK
+REL="PREVIOUS"
+TITLE="LW Tool Chain"
+HREF="index.html"><LINK
+REL="NEXT"
+TITLE="Output Formats"
+HREF="c21.html"></HEAD
+><BODY
+CLASS="CHAPTER"
+BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
+TEXT="#000000"
+LINK="#0000FF"
+VLINK="#840084"
+ALINK="#0000FF"
+><DIV
+CLASS="NAVHEADER"
+><TABLE
+SUMMARY="Header navigation table"
+WIDTH="100%"
+BORDER="0"
+CELLPADDING="0"
+CELLSPACING="0"
+><TR
+><TH
+COLSPAN="3"
+ALIGN="center"
+>LW Tool Chain</TH
+></TR
+><TR
+><TD
+WIDTH="10%"
+ALIGN="left"
+VALIGN="bottom"
+><A
+HREF="index.html"
+ACCESSKEY="P"
+>Prev</A
+></TD
+><TD
+WIDTH="80%"
+ALIGN="center"
+VALIGN="bottom"
+></TD
+><TD
+WIDTH="10%"
+ALIGN="right"
+VALIGN="bottom"
+><A
+HREF="c21.html"
+ACCESSKEY="N"
+>Next</A
+></TD
+></TR
+></TABLE
+><HR
+ALIGN="LEFT"
+WIDTH="100%"></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="CHAPTER"
+><H1
+><A
+NAME="AEN13"
+></A
+>Chapter 1. Introduction</H1
+><P
+>The LW tool chain provides utilities for building binaries for MC6809 and
+HD6309 CPUs. The tool chain includes a cross-assembler and a cross-linker
+which support several styles of output.</P
+><DIV
+CLASS="SECTION"
+><H1
+CLASS="SECTION"
+><A
+NAME="AEN16"
+>1.1. History</A
+></H1
+><P
+>For a long time, I have had an interest in creating an operating system for
+the Coco3. I finally started working on that project around the beginning of
+2006. I had a number of assemblers I could choose from. Eventually, I settled
+on one and started tinkering. After a while, I realized that assembler was not
+going to be sufficient due to lack of macros and issues with forward references.
+Then I tried another which handled forward references correctly but still did
+not support macros. I looked around at other assemblers and they all lacked
+one feature or another that I really wanted for creating my operating system.</P
+><P
+>The solution seemed clear at that point. I am a fair programmer so I figured
+I could write an assembler that would do everything I wanted an assembler to
+do. Thus the LWASM probject was born. After more than two years of on and off
+work, version 1.0 of LWASM was released in October of 2008.</P
+><P
+>As the aforementioned operating system project progressed further, it became
+clear that while assembling the whole project through a single file was doable,
+it was not practical. When I found myself playing some fancy games with macros
+in a bid to simulate sections, I realized I needed a means of assembling
+source files separately and linking them later. This spawned a major development
+effort to add an object file support to LWASM. It also spawned the LWLINK
+project to provide a means to actually link the files.</P
+></DIV
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="NAVFOOTER"
+><HR
+ALIGN="LEFT"
+WIDTH="100%"><TABLE
+SUMMARY="Footer navigation table"
+WIDTH="100%"
+BORDER="0"
+CELLPADDING="0"
+CELLSPACING="0"
+><TR
+><TD
+WIDTH="33%"
+ALIGN="left"
+VALIGN="top"
+><A
+HREF="index.html"
+ACCESSKEY="P"
+>Prev</A
+></TD
+><TD
+WIDTH="34%"
+ALIGN="center"
+VALIGN="top"
+><A
+HREF="index.html"
+ACCESSKEY="H"
+>Home</A
+></TD
+><TD
+WIDTH="33%"
+ALIGN="right"
+VALIGN="top"
+><A
+HREF="c21.html"
+ACCESSKEY="N"
+>Next</A
+></TD
+></TR
+><TR
+><TD
+WIDTH="33%"
+ALIGN="left"
+VALIGN="top"
+>LW Tool Chain</TD
+><TD
+WIDTH="34%"
+ALIGN="center"
+VALIGN="top"
+>&nbsp;</TD
+><TD
+WIDTH="33%"
+ALIGN="right"
+VALIGN="top"
+>Output Formats</TD
+></TR
+></TABLE
+></DIV
+></BODY
+></HTML
+>
\ No newline at end of file