> However, if you really want to do this, for backward GOTO's/CALL's it
should
> be possible to create a macro that chooses one instruction or the other by
> computing the difference between the current location counter and the
target
> of the GOTO/CALL.
>
> I don't know of a way to handle forward GOTO's/CALL's

I don't think forward/backward matter since this is a multi-pass assembler.
You can forward reference symbolic addresses at assembly time.  The real
issues is absolute versus linked.  I don't see how this is possible (accross
modules at least) when the linker is used.


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Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Devens Massachusetts
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