Hi,

Probably a lame question, but i could not yet figure out ...
i am trying to separate code to different asm files by their function.
For example i wrote some wrappers for exception handlers. They do context saving, call the handler function and restore context.
they are put in a file called Exception.asm.
now this file is included into the main asm file where the hanlders are supposed to be written, but their names are not known in the included file during compilation.
For example:




What would be the correct way to handle such a situation? In other environments i could declare the handlers as external, but how about fasmarm?

thanks a lot,
pepe

hmm, answering myself....
the situation is strange, it was caused by the BX instruction (BX Reset). if i used B or BL, it compiled ok, which is odd.

The BX instruction only supports register destinations. There is no BX encoding for immediate offsets.

If you want to declare external constants then you have to use a format that is linkable.

Linkable: yes, i was thinking about that too, since 'include' only inserts the content into the main file, that's why i thought it should work...
BX: i told in the beginning it is a lame question

But thank you for all your answers and reading my lame posts

Everyone is welcome to ask as many "lame" questions as they wish. In your case the answer was not obvious so it was worthwhile to explain the restrictions for BX that the other B* instructions don't have.