Re: Found a minor bug in Merlin-8 v2.58

[Jerry <awanderin@gmail.com>]

Sheldon Simms <wssimms@gmail.com> writes:

> I ran across this last night. It doesn't really matter, because the
> assembler bug is induced by a bug in the source program (failure to
> use immediate addressing).
>
> Look at the symbol table addresses generated in comparison with the
> true addresses of the labels:
>
>
> 8000: A4 03	  1             ldy    endmsg-msg  ;should be immediate
> 8002: 60        2    loop	  rts
> 8003: C8 E8 A1  3    msg      asc    "Hi!"
>                4    endmsg
>
> --End assembly, 6 bytes, Errors: 0
>
> Symbol table - alphabetical order:
>
>   endmsg  =$8007   ?  loop    =$8003      msg     =$8004
>

Very interesting.  It should have generated the LDY absolute form (AC 03
00) on line 1.  Its label-calculations were correct, but the code
generation was wrong.

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