Re: Different hex file generated by gpasm and mpasm

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On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:07, Rob Hamerling wrote:

> An assembler is not a compiler! With an assembler there is a one-to-one
> relationship between a source statement and a machine instruction. A
> compiler must translate the high level symbolic language to a machine
> instructions and it has much freedom how it wants to reach the goal.
>

Which is a very good point :-)

Next time I'll wake up before replying.

> 1. Not a fair comparison with assembler!

WRT above - yup (whoops!)

> 2. The second example will give compilation errors!   ;-)

Again, coffee required.

Martyn

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