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NAME

       z80asm - assembler for the Z80 microprocessor

SYNOPSIS

       z80asm [options] [files...]

DESCRIPTION

       Z80asm  is an assembler for Z80 assembly.  If no input files are specified, stdin is used.
       If no output file is specified, "a.bin" is used.  If "-"  is  specified  as  output  file,
       stdout is used.  This makes it possible to use the assembler in a pipeline.

       When  multiple  input  files  are specified, the assembler first uses all files which were
       specified with -i or --input, in the order  given.   After  that,  all  files  which  were
       specified as non-option arguments are assembled, also in the order given.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options and exit.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.

       -v, --verbose
              Be  verbose.   Specify  multiple  times  to  be more verbose.  Messages are sent to
              standard error.

       -l, --list[=filename]
              Write a list file.  No filename or '-' means stderr.

       -L, --label[=filename]
              Write a label file.  No filename or '-' means stderr.

       -p, --label-prefix=prefix
              prefix all labels with this prefix.

       -i, --input=filename
              Specify an input file (-i may be omitted).  '-' means stdin.

       -o, --output=filename
              Specify the output file.  '-' or completely omitting the option means stdout.

       -I, --includepath=dirname
              Add a directory to the include path.  The order in which the directories are  tried
              is  from  back  to  front:  the  last directory specified has the highest priority.
              "/usr/share/z80asm" is always in the include path (with lowest priority), you don't
              have to specify it.

       -f, --force
              Produce  output  even in case of errors.  Normally the output, list and label files
              are removed when assembly is unsuccesful.

ASSEMBLER DIRECTIVES

       All mnemonics and registers are case insensitive.  All other text (in  particular,  labels
       and macros) are not.  Undocumented opcodes are as much as possible supported:

       sll and sli are equal and can both be used.

       ixh, ixl, iyh and iyl can be used.

       Assembler directives are:

       incbin 'filename'
              Include  a  binary  file  into  the  resulting assembled file.  This can be used to
              include text files, or images, sound files, etc.  The filename is searched  for  in
              the  current  directory, and then in the include path, just like for include.  Also
              like for include, the  quotes  can  be  any  character  (but  must  match)  and  no
              substitution is performed (so ~ is not your home directory).

       defb or db arg, arg, arg, ...
              Define bytes.

       defm or dm "String", 'String'
              Define  message.   Each  character  in the string is stored as one byte.  Backslash
              escapes are allowed, as in characters in  expressions.   Unlike  the  argument  for
              include, the quotes must really be quotes (but they can be single or double quotes.
              The closing quote must match the opening quote.)

       defb/db and defm/dm are really aliases; either can take both quoted strings and numbers:
       defb "This text should be in a buffer\r\n", 0

       defs or ds count [, value]
              Define space.  count bytes are reserved.   Each  of  them  is  initialised  to  the
              specified value, or 0 if no value is specified.

       defw or dw arg, arg, arg, ...
              Define words.  Each argument is stored as two bytes, the low order byte first.

       end    End  assembly  of  this  source file.  Any remaining lines are copied into the list
              file (if present), but not assembled.

       label: equ expression
              Define label to have value expression.

       if expression
       code block 1
       else
       code block 2
       else
       code block 3
       ...
       code block n
       endif
              Conditionally assemble code.  If expression is not  0,  all  odd  code  blocks  are
              assembled,  if expression is 0, all even blocks are assembled.  Usually only one or
              two code blocks are present.

       include 'file'
              Include file into  the  source.   The  quotes  around  the  file  for  include  are
              mandatory,  but  you  can  choose the quotes yourself.  eg, you may use % or even a
              letter as a quote.  The filename does not undergo any expansion, so \,  ~,  $,  etc
              are  passed  as  written  (which  means  ~  will  not be your home directory.)  The
              filename is used as specified, and then prefixed with each directory in the include
              path, until it can be opened.

       label: macro arg1, arg2, ...
       code block
       endif
              Define a macro.  The macro can be used where an opcode is expected.  The code block
              is then substituted, with the given values for the arguments.  This  is  a  textual
              substitution, so the following example is valid:
       makelabel name
       label_name:
       endm
              This will generate a label with a constructed name (it's not a very useful example,
              but it shows the possiblities).

       org address
              Set the "program counter" to address.  This does not add any bytes to the resulting
              binary,  it only determines how the rest of the code is interpreted (in particular,
              the value of labels and $).

       seek offset
              Seek to position offset in the output  file.   This  can  be  used  for  overwiting
              previously  assembled  code,  for  example for patching a binary which was included
              using incbin.

EXPRESSIONS

       All expressions can use the following operators, in order  of  precedence:  (a,  b  and  c
       denote subexpressions)

       a ? b : c
              If a is not zero, return b, otherwise c

       a | b  bitwise or

       a ^ b  bitwise xor

       a & b  bitwise and

       a == b, a = b, a != b
              equality

       a <= b, a >= b, a < b, a > b
              inequality

       a << b, a >> b
              bit shift

       a + b, a - b
              addition and subtraction

       a * b, a / b, a % b
              multiplication, division and modulo

       ~a, +a, -a
              bitwise not, no effect and negation

       ?label 1 if label exists, 0 if it does not.  This does not generate an error if label does
              not exist.  Note that this is usually evaluated immediately (if  the  rest  of  the
              expression  permits),  and  it  does not check if the label is defined later.  This
              means it can be used as the argument of if , to get the functionality of #ifdef  in
              C.

       (a)    parenthesis

       Literals in expressions may be written as: (case does not matter)

       @c11   arbitrary base number (specified by 'c' so c+1 == 10: here base is 13)

       14, 14d, @914
              decimal number

       016, 16o, 16q, &o16, @716
              octal number

       0Eh, 0xE, &hE, $E, @FE
              hexadecimal number (for the first notations, the first character must be 0-9)

       %1110, 1110b, &b1110, @11110
              binary number

       's'    ASCII code of 's'

       '\n', '\r', '\a', '\t'
              Newline, carriage return, alert, tab

       '\nnn' Octal ASCII code

       $      address of first byte of current command

LABELS

       In  all  expressions,  labels  may be used.  However, there are some expressions where the
       value must be computable at once, and therefore only  previously  defined  labels  may  be
       used.  This is the case for:

       - The argument of org

       - The argument of seek

       - The argument of equ (eg, a label definition)

       - The first argument of ds

       - The argument of if

       In all other expressions, labels which are defined later may be used.

       Labels must consist of letters, digits, underscores and periods, and must not start with a
       digit.  Labels are case sensitive.

       Labels starting with a period (.) are local , which means their scope is only the  current
       include  file  or  macro  definition  (and files included/macros called from it).  This is
       particularly useful for macros, to prevent duplicate definitions when using a  macro  more
       than once.

EXIT STATUS

       If  assembly  was  successful,  no  output  is  produced  (except the result, and messages
       triggered by --verbose) and 0 is returned.  At any error, there is output on the  standard
       error and 1 is returned.

NOTES

       Parts  that  are not assembled because of an if statement and macros which are defined but
       never used are only checked to have a correct command. The argument is not  parsed.   This
       means  that  if  the  file passes through the assembler with no warnings or errors, it may
       still not assemble correctly in  a  different  setting  (where  the  if's  give  different
       results).

BUGS

       If  you  find  a  bug,  or  want  to  send  comments,  please  use  the  web  interface at
       http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/z80asm/ or send an e-mail to wijnen@debian.org.

AUTHOR

       Z80asm was written by Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org>.  Some patches were provided  by  Jan
       Wilmans <jw@dds.nl>

                                           May 10, 2005                                 Z80ASM(1)