Aligned sections can now be created with out_NewAlignedSection(). This information is stored in created object files, and read by the linker.
The names of each section are also included in the object file, enabling potential improvements to error messages in the future.
Ensure that IF constructs, REPT blocks, and MACRO defintions are terminated with ENDC, ENDR, or ENDM respectively. If they are not, print an error and stop assembly.
As well as aiding a forgetful programmer, this reduces the risk of memory problems if the file ends less than four bytes after the block starts.
Previously, the copyrept() and copymacro() functions would halt their
first loop (in which they determine the length of the block)
prematurely, causing an underflow when setting len, eventually causing
memory issues.
Whilst this doesn’t solve the len underflow entirely (e.g. if the file
ends immediately without an ENDR/ENDM), it should help with this exact
scenario of null bytes (as #50).
Previously, if BANK is used when defining a section that’s not ROMX,
WRMAX, SRAM or VRAM, a second error message would appear, e.g. “(null)
bank value $1 out of range $5d to $0”.
This would appear due to the usage of uninitialised variables. This
change ensures that the uninitialised variables are not accessed when
using an invalid section.
This also silences compiler warnings about usage of uninitialised
variables.
The code that adds an include path to the array of paths doesn't check
the lenght of the path (which can cause overflows because of strcpy).
It doesn't check if the max number of paths has been reached, either.
This patch adds error messages for such cases, giving the user more
information than before and crashing the assembly instead of
continuing and failing when it can't find a file to include.
Fixed as follows: if the symbol doesn't exist, don't add it to the relocation
table. The functions calling createpatch will nevertheless increment PC
correctly.
Test case:
SECTION "CODE", CODE
glob:
jp .loc
; from test/asm/banknoexist.asm:
SECTION "sec", ROM0
db BANK(noexist)
See also issue #68
If a macro arg came in the middle of a symbol or at the end, e.g. "SYM\1", it would say that the symbol was not defined. This was because it wasn't looking up the macro arg's value correctly.
