26.Feb.2026
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Development tool: vasm 2.0e
Frank Wille has updated vasm, a portable assembler for numerous CPUs with various syntax and output modules. Changes in this release:
- Fixed -nocase option for symbols, which was broken in last release.
- New output module "aof" for the ARM/Acorn Object Format, used for example by Acorn and 3DO.
- New cpu backend for Wozniak's Sweet16 pseudo CPU (also useful as a simple tutorial backend).
- Fixed ".." include paths and misdetection of paths starting with '/' as being absolute for AmigaOS hosts.
- ARM: Support for automatic literal pools, when using the '=' operand-prefix with LDR, to load any constant or label addresses to a register. Includes optimization to MOV or ADR, if possible. Literal pools are dumped with the ltorg directive, or automatically at the end of any section.
- ARM: Alternatively permit an SWI immediate operand with '#'.
- m68k: Register symbol definitions should be case-insensitive in Devpac compatibility mode.
- m68k: Apollo: Adapted MOVEIW opcode for latest cores.
- 6809: Fixed branch optimization/translation (-opt-branch), which was broken since the introduction of Konami-support in V2.0c.
- jagrisc: CPU-specific directives (.equr, etc.) with a leading dot were no longer recognized since V1.8k, when no other dot-prefixed directive was used before and the syntax module was "madmac".
- std-syntax: ELF visibility types: .hidden, .internal, .protected.
- oldstyle-syntax: ASSERT and FAIL directives should not create a default section if no section exists at that point.
- oldstyle-syntax: New option -spcequ removes the restriction that equate symbols have to start on the first column.
- oldstyle-syntax: Add COND and ENDC directives for compatibility.
- elf-output: Support for visibility types.
- tos-output: Alignments > 32 bit in data or bss could lead to corrupt output.
- xfile-output: Alignments > 32 bit in data or bss could lead to corrupt output.
(cg)
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