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Contents
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at Atari Corporation by programmers who needed a high performance assembler
for their work. Then, more than 20 years later, because there was still a need for
such an assembler and what was available wasn't up to expectations, Subqmod
-and eventually Reboot continued work on the freely released source, adding Jaguar
+and eventually the rmac authors continued work on the freely released source, adding Jaguar
extensions and fixing bugs. Over time the assembler has been extended by adding
support for Motorola's 68020/30/40/60, 68881/2, DSP56001 CPUs as well as Atari's
Object Processor (OP) found on the Atari Jaguar.
-e\ *[file[.err]]* Direct error messages to the specified file.
-fa ALCYON output object file format (implied when **-ps** is enabled).
-fb BSD COFF output object file format.
+-fb Commodore 64 PRG format.
-fe ELF output object file format.
-fr Absolute address. Source code is required to have one .org statement.
-fx Atari 800 com/exe/xex output object file format.
+-g Generate source level debug info. Requires BSD COFF object file format.
-i\ *path* Set include-file directory search path.
-l\ *[file[prn]]* Construct and direct assembly listing to the specified file.
--l\ *\*[filename]* Create an output listing file without pagination
+-l\ *\*[filename]* Create an output listing file without pagination.
-m\ *cpu* Switch CPU type
`68000 - MC68000`
+o\ *0-30*/*p* Enable specific optimisation
~o\ *0-30*/*p* Disable specific optimisation
- `0: Absolute long adddresses to word (on by default)`
+ `0: Absolute long adddresses to word`
- `1: move.l #x,Dn/An to moveq (on by default)`
+ `1: move.l #x,Dn/An to moveq`
- `2: Word branches to short (on by default)`
+ `2: Word branches to short`
`3: Outer displacement 0(An) to (An)`
`11: 56001 Auto convert short addressing mode to long (default: on)`
- `o30: Enforce PC relative (alternative name: op)`
+ `30: Enforce PC relative (alternative name: op)`
-p Produce an executable (**.prg**) output file.
-ps Produce an executable (**.prg**) output file with symbols.
-s Warn about unoptimized long branches and applied optimisations.
-u Force referenced and undefined symbols global.
-v Verbose mode (print running dialogue).
--x Turn on debugging mode
+-x Turn on debugging mode.
-yn Set listing page size to n lines.
+-4 Use C style operator precedence.
file\ *[s]* Assemble the specified file.
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file is created. Beware! If an assembly produces no errors, any error file from
a previous assembly is not removed.
+**-g**
+ The **-g** switch causes RMAC to generate source-level debug symbols using the
+ stabs format. When linked with a compatible linker such as RLN, these symbols
+ can be used by source-level debuggers such as rdbjag, wdb, or gdb to step
+ through assembly code line-by-line with all the additional context of labels,
+ macros, constants, register equates, etc. available in the original assembly
+ listings rather than relying on the simple disassembly or raw machine code
+ available when stepping through instruction-by-instruction. This option only
+ works with the BSD COFF object file format, as the others do not use the
+ a.out-style symbol tables required by stabs, and RMAC does not currently
+ support placing stabs debug symbols in their own dedicated section in ELF
+ format object files.
+
**-i**
The **-i** switch allows automatic directory searching for include files. A list of
semi-colon seperated directory search paths may be mentioned immediately
space), sets the number of lines in a page. RMAC will produce *N* lines
before emitting a form-feed. If *N* is missing or less than 10 an error message is
generated.
+**-4**
+ Use C style order of precedence in expressions. See `Order of Evaluation`_ for more
+ information.
`Using RMAC`_
===============
character codes. Watch out for GEMDOS path names in ASCII constants -
you will have to convert them to double-backslashes.
* Expression evaluation is done left-to-right without operator precedence. Use parentheses to
- force the expression evaluation as you wish.
+ force the expression evaluation as you wish. Alternatively, use the **-4** switch to switch
+ to C style precedence. For more information refer to `Order of Evaluation`_.
* Mark your segments across files.
Branching to a code segment that could be identified as BSS will cause a "Error: cannot initialize non-storage (BSS) section"
* In 68020+ mode **Zan** and **Zri** (register suppression) is not supported.
a0 a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7
Tom/Jerry:
r0 r1 r2 r3 r4 r5 r6 r7
- r8 r9 r10 r11 r12 rl3 r14 r15
+ r8 r9 r10 r11 r12 r13 r14 r15
6502:
x y a
DSP56001:
Thus the expression "1+2*3" evaluates to 9, not 7. However, precedence may be
forced with parenthesis (**()**) or square-brackets (**[]**).
+All the above behavior is the default. However if the command line switch **-4**
+is used, then C style of operator precedence is enforced. The following list
+shows the order of precedence in this mode, from lowest to highest:
+
+ * bitwise XOR ^
+
+ * bitwise OR |
+
+ * bitwise AND &
+
+ * relational = < <= >= > !=
+
+ * shifts << >>
+
+ * sum + -
+
+ * product * /
+
`Types`_
'''''''''
Expressions belong to one of three classes: undefined, absolute or relocatable. An
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* All binary operators have the same precedence:
- expressions are evaluated strictly left to right.
+ expressions are evaluated strictly left to right,
+ with the exception of the **-4** switch. For more information
+ refer to `Order of Evaluation`_.
* Division or modulo by zero yields an assembly error.
Therefore, to align GPU/DSP code, align the current section before and
after the GPU/DSP code.
- **.assert** *expression* [,\ *expression*...]
+**.align** *expression*
+
+ A generalised version of the above directives, this will align the program
+ counter to the boundary of the specified value. Note that there is not much
+ error checking happening (only values 0 and 1 are rejected). Also note that
+ in DSP56001 mode the align value is assumed to be in DSP words, i.e. 24 bits.
+
+**.assert** *expression* [,\ *expression*...]
Assert that the conditions are true (non-zero). If any of the comma-seperated
expressions evaluates to zero an assembler warning is issued. For example:
references may not be made. (Nevertheless, RMAC may reasonably be used for
large assemblies because of its blinding speed.)
+Currently there is no support for undocumented opcodes. This will be addressed
+in a future release.
+
`6502 Addressing Modes`_
''''''''''''''''''''''''
All standard 6502 addressing modes are supported, with the exception of the
04-05 End Address. The last byte to load for this segment
06-.. The actual segment data to load (End Address-Start Address + 1 bytes)
+In addition there is the standard output format for Commodore 64 binaries (.PRG).
+
`Error Messages`_
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