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Diffstat (limited to 'assembler/syntax.txt')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/assembler/syntax.txt b/assembler/syntax.txt index a3bfc9a..fb1af1a 100644 --- a/assembler/syntax.txt +++ b/assembler/syntax.txt @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ TODO: possibly simplify this to make it less of a pain to write Leading and trailing whitespace is ignored Comments start with ; and must not be inside "", '', or `` +Comments must be preceeded by a space or tab if not at the start of the line + \ is used for escaping; only applies to ", ', `, and itself when outside of quotations Data-at-address is indicated by [value], where value is anything valid to be used as an indirect reference @@ -20,7 +22,9 @@ Instruction queues are surrounded by { and }: { and } must be on their own in the line (aside for whitespace and comments) -Labels are any combination of non-whitespace from the start of the line to a ':', and not followed by any non-comment non-whitespace +If an instruction is specified without { and }, it is considered to be an instruction queue of only that instruction + +Labels are any combination of non-whitespace non-quotation from the start of the line to a ':', and not followed by any non-comment non-whitespace Labels must not be declared inside instruction queues If a label includes { or }, it must start with {, then a number, then }, to be used as its default size; all other uses of these characters are invalid |