gnupic: gpasm-0.10.4 alpha error messages
Subject:
gpasm-0.10.4 alpha error messages
From:
Andy ####@####.####
Date:
13 Nov 2002 19:27:59 -0000
Message-Id: <200211131921.34513.andy@bytewyse.org>
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I came across a difference between gpasm-0.10.4 and MPASM 3.20 and thought I
would solicit your comments on it.
The line that caused me problems was:
GOTO FOO
.
.
.
FOO MOVLW A'F
Note the missing closing quote
gpasm generated the following error:
work/pcr1k/pcr1k01b.asm:854:Error [113] Symbol not previously defined (FOO).
work/pcr1k/pcr1k01b.asm:856:Error [103] parse error
This error message sent me of in completely the wrong direction because
initially I didn't spot the missing quote while focussing on the error
message.
After a frustrating few minutes where I couldn't find any error associated
with the label FOO I decided to boot my Windows system and run MPLAB to see
if the same message was generated.
MPLAB generated a warning rather than an error and helpfully pointed out that
I was missing the quote.
Now I can accept that the error message generated by gpsim is partially
correct in that it is a parse error because the line is syntactically
incomplete but I was wondering if it would be possible to modify gpasm to
parse lines better and generate more helpful error messages in the way that
MPLAB does?
Regards
Andy
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