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Assembling Your Program
5-15 Using the DSK Assembler
5.6 Assembling Your Program
Before you attempt to debug your programs, you must first assemble them.
Here’s the command for invoking the assembler when preparing a program for
debugging:
dsk3a filename [ options]
dsk3a is the command that invokes the assembler.
filename is the assembly language source file. Filenames are not case-
sensitive. If you do not specify an extension, the assembler as-
sumes the default extension .
asm.
options
affect the way the assembler processes input files.
You can specify options and filenames in any order on the command line.
Table 5–4 lists the assembler options; the following subsections describe the
options.
Table 5–4. Summary of Assembler Options
Option Description
E xxx Stops assembling after xxx error messages occur (5 is the default)
Q Suppresses the banner and all progress information (quiet)
W
xxx
Stops assembling after
xxx warning messages occur