Short:        PhxAss V4.39 68xxx Macro Assembler
Author:       frank@phoenix.owl.de (Frank Wille)
Uploader:     frank phoenix owl de
Type:         dev/asm
Version:      4.39
Replaces:     dev/asm/PhxAss438*
Requires:     OS2.04
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

PhxAss V4.39 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, also AsmOne-style: global/.local).
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 V4.38 (last Aminet release):

Fixed Bugs:
o Some severe bugs, enforcer hits and crashes (when using local symbols,
  for example) from V4.38 were fixed. This version was crap... :)
o Fixed (Rn.s) bug in 020+ addressing modes (another 4.38-only bug).
o .x(Rn) and (.x,Rn) generated a syntax error in 020+ mode. The local
  symbols/registers were erroneously treated as extensions (and yes,
  this is another 4.38-only bug!).

New Features:
o Access on local symbols from a different block as in AsmOne is possible
  by writing: GlobalSym/.LocalSym
o MOVEM accepts numeric constants as register list. Example:
    movem.l :$7fff,-(sp)