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>LWASM supports generating a proprietary object file format which is
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>Object files are very flexible in that they allow references that are not
known at assembly time to be resolved at link time. However, because the
addresses of such references are not known, there is no way for the assembler
has to use sixteen bit addressing modes for these references. The linker
will always use sixteen bits when resolving a reference which means any
instruction that requires an eight bit operand cannot use external references.</P
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>Object files also support the concept of sections which are not valid
for other output types. This allows related code from each object file
linked to be collapsed together in the final binary.</P
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author	lost
date	Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:36:09 +0000
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