Changes to the assembler headers

[Tony van der Hoff]

Philip Ludlam <philip at philipnet.com> wrote in message
<e57a1e6c4c.philip at philipnet.com>

[snip]
> 
> I've whittled it down to:
>   *do objasm -I <OSLib$Path> s.test -o o.test -desktop @
> 
> ARM AOF Macro Assembler 3.28 (Acorn Computers Ltd) [20 Jun 2003] Error:
> File "s. at .oslib.Hdr.OS" could not be opened Error: Bad GET or INCLUDE at
> line 1 in file s.test
>     1 00000000  GET oslib.Hdr.OS
> Assembly terminated: 2 Errors, 0 Warnings
> 
> Which, to me, shows that it's the -desktop argument which is fsck-ing
> objasm.
> 

Ah. I've never used that syntax, so I've not seen the problem. May I ask why
you're not using a Makefile? That should work around that problem.

However, it seems that OBJASM is seriously broken in this respect. I don't
know how many of the ex-Pace gurus still subscribe to this list, and it may
be worth airing the problem in c.s.a.p to see if anyone else has experience
with this. The chances of Castle fixing it in the short term are pretty low
IMHO.

Meanwhile, it is evident that whilst it is ObjASM that's broken, what I have
done has exacerbated the problem. If you find that OSLib is unusable like
this, then I guess I'll have to reverse the change, at least until ObjASM is
fixed. Not pretty, and it makes cross-assembly a problem, but it may be the
only way in the short term. Let me know what you think. Does anyone else
here have any contribution to make?

-- 
Tony van der Hoff
Buckinghamshire England