Im trying to port code from on old BSO 68K assembler to the gcc assembler. I have run into a problem converting the structures. In BSO you can make as many structures as you want by starting with a BSO directive of OFFSET len, and by ending it with SECTION.
Example:
OFFSET 0
item_start equ *
item1 DS.B 20
item2 DS.W 1
item3 DS.L 2
item_end equ *
item_length equ item_end-item_start
SECTION
item1 would equate to 0, and item2 would equate to 20 and item3 would equate to 22. So in a real section you could define a data structure and then easily referance the items in the structure
Example:
SECTION .bss
item DS.B item_length
SECTION .text
LEA item,A0
MOVE.W #5,item2(A0)
I have looked at the gas manual and have found .offset and .struct, but I still cant figure out how (if its even possible) to create this type of structure without the assembler or linker complainning. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bart
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