ref: b6bd57a764bb2e8b4131c0a4365eda9cd0f63aa0
parent: 6ad5bd232504801b1b6b911c918677a7aff2c698
parent: f2b55527d53dcca25bf55976c5cf7921c3db93a1
author: Antonio Niño Díaz <[email protected]>
date: Mon Feb 26 16:55:19 EST 2018
Merge pull request #237 from continue-lines Allow to continue lines Signed-off-by: Antonio Niño Díaz <[email protected]>
--- a/docs/gbz80.7.html
+++ b/docs/gbz80.7.html
@@ -34,8 +34,12 @@
is assumed it's register <b class="Sy" title="Sy">A</b>. The following two
lines have the same effect:
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">OR A,B</code></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">OR B</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+OR A,B
+OR B
+</pre>
+</div>
<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="LEGEND"><a class="selflink" href="#LEGEND">LEGEND</a></h1>
List of abbreviations used in this document.
<dl class="Bl-tag">
@@ -1689,7 +1693,7 @@
<a class="Lk" title="Lk" href="https://github.com/rednex/rgbds">https://github.com/rednex/rgbds</a>.</div>
<table class="foot">
<tr>
- <td class="foot-date">January 26, 2018</td>
+ <td class="foot-date">February 23, 2018</td>
<td class="foot-os">RGBDS Manual</td>
</tr>
</table>
--- a/docs/rgbasm.5.html
+++ b/docs/rgbasm.5.html
@@ -38,7 +38,11 @@
<div class="Pp"></div>
Example:
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">John: ld a,87 ;Weee</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+John: ld a,87 ;Weee
+</pre>
+</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
All pseudo‐ops, mnemonics and registers (reserved keywords) are
case‐insensitive and all labels are case‐sensitive.
@@ -47,13 +51,40 @@
the line. The most common one is: anything that follows a semicolon
";" (that isn't inside a string) is a comment. There is another
format: anything that follows a "*" that is placed right at the
- start of a line is a comment.
+ start of a line is a comment. The assembler removes all comments from the code
+ before doing anything else.
+<div class="Pp"></div>
+Sometimes lines can be too long and it may be necessary to split them. The
+ syntax to do so is the following one:
+<div class="Pp"></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+ DB 1, 2, 3, 4 \
+ 5, 6, 7, 8
+</pre>
+</div>
+<div class="Pp"></div>
+This works anywhere in the code except inside of strings. To split strings it is
+ needed to use
+<div> </div>
+like this:
+<div class="Pp"></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+ DB STRCAT("Hello ", \
+ "world!")
+</pre>
+</div>
<h2 class="Ss" title="Ss" id="Sections"><a class="selflink" href="#Sections">Sections</a></h2>
Before you can start writing code, you must define a section. This tells the
assembler what kind of information follows and, if it is code, where to put
it.
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">SECTION "CoolStuff",ROMX</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+ SECTION "CoolStuff",ROMX
+</pre>
+</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
This switches to the section called "CoolStuff" (or creates it if it
doesn't already exist) and it defines it as a code section. All sections
@@ -139,25 +170,38 @@
obligation to follow any specific rules. The following example defines a
section that can be placed anywhere in any ROMX bank:
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">SECTION "CoolStuff",ROMX</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+ SECTION "CoolStuff",ROMX
+</pre>
+</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
If it is needed, the following syntax can be used to fix the base address of the
section:
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">SECTION
- "CoolStuff",ROMX[$4567]</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+ SECTION "CoolStuff",ROMX[$4567]
+</pre>
+</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
It won't, however, fix the bank number, which is left to the linker. If you also
want to specify the bank you can do:
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">SECTION
- "CoolStuff",ROMX[$4567],BANK[3]</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+ SECTION "CoolStuff",ROMX[$4567],BANK[3]
+</pre>
+</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
And if you only want to force the section into a certain bank, and not it's
position within the bank, that's also possible:
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">SECTION
- "CoolStuff",ROMX,BANK[7]</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+ SECTION "CoolStuff",ROMX,BANK[7]
+</pre>
+</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
In addition, you can specify byte alignment for a section. This ensures that the
section starts at a memory address where the given number of least-significant
@@ -167,12 +211,14 @@
needed to align the start of an array to 256 bytes to optimize the code that
accesses it.
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">SECTION "OAM Data",WRAM0,ALIGN[8];
- align to 256 bytes</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+ SECTION "OAM Data",WRAM0,ALIGN[8] ; align to 256 bytes
+
+ SECTION "VRAM Data",ROMX,BANK[2],ALIGN[4] ; align to 16 bytes
+</pre>
+</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">SECTION "VRAM
- Data",ROMX,BANK[2],ALIGN[4]; align to 16 bytes</code></div>
-<div class="Pp"></div>
HINT: If you think this is a lot of typing for doing a simple
<b class="Ic" title="Ic">ORG</b> type thing you can quite easily write an
intelligent macro (called <b class="Ic" title="Ic">ORG</b> for example) that
@@ -260,8 +306,12 @@
EQUates are constant symbols. They can, for example, be used for things such
as bit-definitions of hardware registers.
<div class="Pp"></div>
- <div class="D1"><code class="Li">EXIT_OK EQU $00</code></div>
- <div class="D1"><code class="Li">EXIT_FAILURE EQU $01</code></div>
+ <div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+ <pre class="Li">
+EXIT_OK EQU $00
+EXIT_FAILURE EQU $01
+ </pre>
+ </div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
Note that a colon (:) following the label-name is not allowed. EQUates
cannot be exported and imported. They don't change their value during the
@@ -285,7 +335,11 @@
be exported and imported. Alternatively you can use = as a synonym for
SET.
<div class="Pp"></div>
- <div class="D1"><code class="Li">COUNT = 2</code></div>
+ <div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+ <pre class="Li">
+COUNT = 2
+ </pre>
+ </div>
</dd>
<dt class="It-hang"><b class="Sy" title="Sy">RSSET</b>,
<b class="Sy" title="Sy">RSRESET</b>, <b class="Sy" title="Sy">RB</b>,
@@ -378,10 +432,10 @@
<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
<pre class="Li">
COUNTREG EQUS "[hl+]"
-ld a,COUNTREG
+ ld a,COUNTREG
PLAYER_NAME EQUS "\"John\""
-db PLAYER_NAME
+ db PLAYER_NAME
</pre>
</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
@@ -390,13 +444,20 @@
<div class="Pp"></div>
This will be interpreted as:
<div class="Pp"></div>
- <div class="D1"><code class="Li">ld a,[hl+]</code></div>
- <div class="D1"><code class="Li">db "John"</code></div>
+ <div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+ <pre class="Li">
+ ld a,[hl+]
+ db "John"
+ </pre>
+ </div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
String-symbols can also be used to define small one-line macros:
<div class="Pp"></div>
- <div class="D1"><code class="Li">PUSHA EQUS "push af\npush bc\npush
- de\npush hl\n"</code></div>
+ <div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+ <pre class="Li">
+PUSHA EQUS "push af\npush bc\npush de\npush hl\n"
+ </pre>
+ </div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
Note that a colon (:) following the label-name is not allowed. String
equates can't be exported or imported.
@@ -510,7 +571,11 @@
address and the second being a bytecount. The macro will then reset all
bytes in this range.
<div class="Pp"></div>
- <div class="D1"><code class="Li">LoopyMacro MyVars,54</code></div>
+ <div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+ <pre class="Li">
+LoopyMacro MyVars,54
+ </pre>
+ </div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
Arguments are passed as string equates. There's no need to enclose them in
quotes. An expression will not be evaluated first but passed directly.
@@ -525,6 +590,21 @@
use the first 9 like this. If you want to use the rest, you need to use
the keyword <b class="Ic" title="Ic">SHIFT</b>.
<div class="Pp"></div>
+ Line continuations work as usual inside macros or lists of arguments of
+ macros. Strings, however, are a bit trickier. The following example shows
+ how to use strings as arguments for a macro:
+ <div class="Pp"></div>
+ <div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+ <pre class="Li">
+PrintMacro : MACRO
+ PRINTT \1
+ENDM
+
+ PrintMacro STRCAT(\"Hello\"\, \
+ \" world\\n\")
+ </pre>
+ </div>
+ <div class="Pp"></div>
<b class="Ic" title="Ic">SHIFT</b> is a special command only available in
macros. Very useful in REPT-blocks. It will "shift" the
arguments by one "to the left". <b class="Ic" title="Ic">\1</b>
@@ -710,8 +790,11 @@
<b class="Ic" title="Ic">DB</b> defines a list of bytes that will be stored in
the final image. Ideal for tables and text (which is not zero-terminated).
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">DB 1,2,3,4,"This is a
- string"</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+DB 1,2,3,4,"This is a string"
+</pre>
+</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
Alternatively, you can use <b class="Ic" title="Ic">DW</b> to store a list of
words (16-bits) or <b class="Ic" title="Ic">DL</b> to store a list of
@@ -738,8 +821,11 @@
<b class="Ic" title="Ic">DW</b> and <b class="Ic" title="Ic">DL</b> without
any arguments instead.
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">DS str_SIZEOF ;allocate str_SIZEOF
- bytes</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+DS str_SIZEOF ;allocate str_SIZEOF bytes
+</pre>
+</div>
<h2 class="Ss" title="Ss" id="Including_binary_files"><a class="selflink" href="#Including_binary_files">Including
binary files</a></h2>
You probably have some graphics you'd like to include. Use
@@ -747,17 +833,23 @@
the file isn't found in the current directory, the include-path list passed to
the linker on the command line will be searched.
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">INCBIN "titlepic.bin"</code></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">INCBIN "sprites/hero.bin" ;
- UNIX</code></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">INCBIN "sprites\\hero.bin" ;
- Windows</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+INCBIN "titlepic.bin"
+INCBIN "sprites/hero.bin" ; UNIX
+INCBIN "sprites\\hero.bin" ; Windows
+</pre>
+</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
You can also include only part of a file with
<b class="Ic" title="Ic">INCBIN</b>. The example below includes 256 bytes from
data.bin starting from byte 78.
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">INCBIN "data.bin",78,256</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+INCBIN "data.bin",78,256
+</pre>
+</div>
<h2 class="Ss" title="Ss" id="Unions"><a class="selflink" href="#Unions">Unions</a></h2>
Unions allow multiple memory allocations to share the same space in memory, like
unions in C. This allows you to easily reuse memory for different purposes,
@@ -872,7 +964,11 @@
<b class="Ic" title="Ic">INCLUDE</b> calls infinitely (or until you run out of
memory, whichever comes first).
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">INCLUDE "irq.inc"</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+ INCLUDE "irq.inc"
+</pre>
+</div>
<h2 class="Ss" title="Ss" id="Conditional_assembling"><a class="selflink" href="#Conditional_assembling">Conditional
assembling</a></h2>
The four commands <b class="Ic" title="Ic">IF</b>,
@@ -929,7 +1025,11 @@
actually pixel values and it converts the “chunky” data to
“planar” data as used in the Gameboy.
<div class="Pp"></div>
-<div class="D1"><code class="Li">DW `01012323</code></div>
+<div class="Bd" style="margin-left: 5.00ex;">
+<pre class="Li">
+ DW `01012323
+</pre>
+</div>
<div class="Pp"></div>
Admittedly, an expression with just a single number is quite boring. To spice
things up a bit there are a few operators you can use to perform calculations
@@ -1465,7 +1565,7 @@
<a class="Lk" title="Lk" href="https://github.com/rednex/rgbds">https://github.com/rednex/rgbds</a>.</div>
<table class="foot">
<tr>
- <td class="foot-date">February 24, 2018</td>
+ <td class="foot-date">February 26, 2018</td>
<td class="foot-os">RGBDS Manual</td>
</tr>
</table>
--- a/src/asm/lexer.c
+++ b/src/asm/lexer.c
@@ -638,6 +638,44 @@
}
}
+ /* Check for line continuation character */
+ if (*pLexBuffer == '\\') {+
+ /*
+ * Look for line continuation character after a series of
+ * spaces. This is also useful for files that use Windows line
+ * endings: "\r\n" is replaced by " \n" before the lexer has the
+ * opportunity to see it.
+ */
+ if (pLexBuffer[1] == ' ') {+ pLexBuffer += 2;
+ while (1) {+ if (*pLexBuffer == ' ') {+ pLexBuffer++;
+ } else if (*pLexBuffer == '\n') {+ pLexBuffer++;
+ nLineNo += 1;
+ goto scanagain;
+ } else {+ errx(1, "Expected a new line after the continuation character.");
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* Line continuation character */
+ if (pLexBuffer[1] == '\n') {+ pLexBuffer += 2;
+ nLineNo += 1;
+ goto scanagain;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If there isn't a newline character or a space, ignore the
+ * character '\'. It will eventually be handled by other
+ * functions like PutMacroArg().
+ */
+ }
+
/*
* Try to match an identifier, macro argument (e.g. \1),
* or numeric literal.
@@ -725,6 +763,9 @@
case '\\':
ch = '\\';
break;
+ case '"':
+ ch = '\"';
+ break;
case ',':
ch = ',';
break;
@@ -733,6 +774,32 @@
break;
case '}':
ch = '}';
+ break;
+ case ' ':
+ /*
+ * Look for line continuation character after a
+ * series of spaces. This is also useful for
+ * files that use Windows line endings: "\r\n"
+ * is replaced by " \n" before the lexer has the
+ * opportunity to see it.
+ */
+ while (1) {+ if (*pLexBuffer == ' ') {+ pLexBuffer++;
+ } else if (*pLexBuffer == '\n') {+ pLexBuffer++;
+ nLineNo += 1;
+ ch = 0;
+ break;
+ } else {+ errx(1, "Expected a new line after the continuation character.");
+ }
+ }
+ break;
+ case '\n':
+ /* Line continuation character */
+ nLineNo += 1;
+ ch = 0;
break;
default:
maxLength = MAXSTRLEN - index;
--- a/src/asm/rgbasm.5
+++ b/src/asm/rgbasm.5
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
.\"
-.Dd February 24, 2018
+.Dd February 26, 2018
.Dt RGBASM 5
.Os RGBDS Manual
.Sh NAME
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@
.Pp
Example:
.Pp
-.Dl John: ld a,87 ;Weee
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+John: ld a,87 ;Weee
+.Ed
.Pp
All pseudo‐ops, mnemonics and registers (reserved keywords) are case‐insensitive
and all labels are case‐sensitive.
@@ -35,13 +37,35 @@
the line. The most common one is: anything that follows a semicolon
\[dq]\&;\[dq] (that isn't inside a string) is a comment. There is another
format: anything that follows a \[dq]*\[dq] that is placed right at the start of
-a line is a comment.
+a line is a comment. The assembler removes all comments from the code before
+doing anything else.
+.Pp
+Sometimes lines can be too long and it may be necessary to split them. The
+syntax to do so is the following one:
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ DB 1, 2, 3, 4 \[rs]
+ 5, 6, 7, 8
+.Ed
+.Pp
+This works anywhere in the code except inside of strings. To split strings it is
+needed to use
+.It STRCAT
+like this:
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ DB STRCAT("Hello ", \[rs]+ "world!")
+.Ed
+.Pp
.Ss Sections
Before you can start writing code, you must define a section.
This tells the assembler what kind of information follows and, if it is code,
where to put it.
.Pp
-.Dl SECTION \[dq]CoolStuff\[dq],ROMX
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ SECTION \[dq]CoolStuff\[dq],ROMX
+.Ed
.Pp
This switches to the section called "CoolStuff" (or creates it if it doesn't
already exist) and it defines it as a code section.
@@ -128,22 +152,30 @@
The following example defines a section that can be placed anywhere in any ROMX
bank:
.Pp
-.Dl SECTION \[dq]CoolStuff\[dq],ROMX
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ SECTION \[dq]CoolStuff\[dq],ROMX
+.Ed
.Pp
If it is needed, the following syntax can be used to fix the base address of the
section:
.Pp
-.Dl SECTION \[dq]CoolStuff\[dq],ROMX[$4567]
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ SECTION \[dq]CoolStuff\[dq],ROMX[$4567]
+.Ed
.Pp
It won't, however, fix the bank number, which is left to the linker.
If you also want to specify the bank you can do:
.Pp
-.Dl SECTION \[dq]CoolStuff\[dq],ROMX[$4567],BANK[3]
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ SECTION \[dq]CoolStuff\[dq],ROMX[$4567],BANK[3]
+.Ed
.Pp
And if you only want to force the section into a certain bank, and not it's
position within the bank, that's also possible:
.Pp
-.Dl SECTION \[dq]CoolStuff\[dq],ROMX,BANK[7]
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ SECTION \[dq]CoolStuff\[dq],ROMX,BANK[7]
+.Ed
.Pp
In addition, you can specify byte alignment for a section.
This ensures that the section starts at a memory address where the given number
@@ -155,10 +187,12 @@
This can be useful when using DMA to copy data or when it is needed to align the
start of an array to 256 bytes to optimize the code that accesses it.
.Pp
-.Dl SECTION \[dq]OAM Data\[dq],WRAM0,ALIGN[8] ; align to 256 bytes
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ SECTION \[dq]OAM Data\[dq],WRAM0,ALIGN[8] ; align to 256 bytes
+
+ SECTION \[dq]VRAM Data\[dq],ROMX,BANK[2],ALIGN[4] ; align to 16 bytes
+.Ed
.Pp
-.Dl SECTION \[dq]VRAM Data\[dq],ROMX,BANK[2],ALIGN[4] ; align to 16 bytes
-.Pp
HINT: If you think this is a lot of typing for doing a simple
.Ic ORG
type thing you can quite easily write an intelligent macro (called
@@ -255,8 +289,10 @@
They can, for example, be used for things such as bit-definitions of hardware
registers.
.Pp
-.Dl EXIT_OK EQU $00
-.Dl EXIT_FAILURE EQU $01
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+EXIT_OK EQU $00
+EXIT_FAILURE EQU $01
+.Ed
.Pp
Note that a colon (:) following the label-name is not allowed.
EQUates cannot be exported and imported.
@@ -278,7 +314,9 @@
SETs cannot be exported and imported.
Alternatively you can use = as a synonym for SET.
.Pp
-.Dl COUNT = 2
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+COUNT = 2
+.Ed
.Pp
.It Sy RSSET , RSRESET , RB , RW
.Pp
@@ -330,10 +368,10 @@
.Pp
.Bd -literal -offset indent
COUNTREG EQUS "[hl+]"
-ld a,COUNTREG
+ ld a,COUNTREG
PLAYER_NAME EQUS \[dq]\[rs]\[dq]John\[rs]\[dq]\[dq]
-db PLAYER_NAME
+ db PLAYER_NAME
.Ed
.Pp
Note that : following the label-name is not allowed, and that strings must be
@@ -341,12 +379,16 @@
.Pp
This will be interpreted as:
.Pp
-.Dl ld a,[hl+]
-.Dl db \[dq]John\[dq]
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ ld a,[hl+]
+ db \[dq]John\[dq]
+.Ed
.Pp
String-symbols can also be used to define small one-line macros:
.Pp
-.Dl PUSHA EQUS \[dq]push af\[rs]npush bc\[rs]npush de\[rs]npush hl\[rs]n\[dq]
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+PUSHA EQUS \[dq]push af\[rs]npush bc\[rs]npush de\[rs]npush hl\[rs]n\[dq]
+.Ed
.Pp
Note that a colon (:) following the label-name is not allowed.
String equates can't be exported or imported.
@@ -459,7 +501,9 @@
The first being the address and the second being a bytecount.
The macro will then reset all bytes in this range.
.Pp
-.Dl LoopyMacro MyVars,54
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+LoopyMacro MyVars,54
+.Ed
.Pp
Arguments are passed as string equates.
There's no need to enclose them in quotes.
@@ -479,6 +523,19 @@
the first 9 like this. If you want to use the rest, you need to use the keyword
.Ic SHIFT .
.Pp
+Line continuations work as usual inside macros or lists of arguments of macros.
+Strings, however, are a bit trickier. The following example shows how to use
+strings as arguments for a macro:
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+PrintMacro : MACRO
+ PRINTT \[rs]1
+ENDM
+
+ PrintMacro STRCAT(\[rs]\[dq]Hello\[rs]\[dq]\[rs], \[rs]
+ \[rs]\[dq] world\[rs]\[rs]n\[rs]\[dq])
+.Ed
+.Pp
.Ic SHIFT
is a special command only available in macros.
Very useful in REPT-blocks.
@@ -565,7 +622,9 @@
defines a list of bytes that will be stored in the final image.
Ideal for tables and text (which is not zero-terminated).
.Pp
-.Dl DB 1,2,3,4,\[dq]This is a string\[dq]
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+DB 1,2,3,4,\[dq]This is a string\[dq]
+.Ed
.Pp
Alternatively, you can use
.Ic DW
@@ -609,7 +668,9 @@
.Ic DL
without any arguments instead.
.Pp
-.Dl DS str_SIZEOF ;allocate str_SIZEOF bytes
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+DS str_SIZEOF ;allocate str_SIZEOF bytes
+.Ed
.Pp
.Ss Including binary files
You probably have some graphics you'd like to include.
@@ -619,15 +680,19 @@
If the file isn't found in the current directory, the include-path list passed
to the linker on the command line will be searched.
.Pp
-.Dl INCBIN \[dq]titlepic.bin\[dq]
-.Dl INCBIN \[dq]sprites/hero.bin\[dq]\ ; UNIX
-.Dl INCBIN \[dq]sprites\[rs]\[rs]hero.bin\[dq]\ ; Windows
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+INCBIN \[dq]titlepic.bin\[dq]
+INCBIN \[dq]sprites/hero.bin\[dq]\ ; UNIX
+INCBIN \[dq]sprites\[rs]\[rs]hero.bin\[dq]\ ; Windows
+.Ed
.Pp
You can also include only part of a file with
.Ic INCBIN .
The example below includes 256 bytes from data.bin starting from byte 78.
.Pp
-.Dl INCBIN \[dq]data.bin\[dq],78,256
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+INCBIN \[dq]data.bin\[dq],78,256
+.Ed
.Ss Unions
Unions allow multiple memory allocations to share the same space in memory,
like unions in C.
@@ -755,7 +820,9 @@
.Ic INCLUDE
calls infinitely (or until you run out of memory, whichever comes first).
.Pp
-.Dl INCLUDE \[dq]irq.inc\[dq]
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ INCLUDE \[dq]irq.inc\[dq]
+.Ed
.Pp
.Ss Conditional assembling
The four commands
@@ -831,7 +898,9 @@
The values are actually pixel values and it converts the
.Do chunky Dc data to Do planar Dc data as used in the Gameboy.
.Pp
-.Dl DW \`01012323
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+ DW \`01012323
+.Ed
.Pp
Admittedly, an expression with just a single number is quite boring.
To spice things up a bit there are a few operators you can use to perform
--- a/src/gbz80.7
+++ b/src/gbz80.7
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
.\"
-.Dd January 26, 2018
+.Dd February 23, 2018
.Dt GBZ80 7
.Os RGBDS Manual
.Sh NAME
@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@
.Sy A .
The following two lines have the same effect:
.Pp
-.Dl OR A,B
-.Dl OR B
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+OR A,B
+OR B
+.Ed
.Pp
.Sh LEGEND
List of abbreviations used in this document.