CHANGES - metacpan.org

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2.05_06 2009-09-22
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- Move back to 5.008, CPAN of 5.006 did not compile, Regexp::Trie requires 5.008
- '$' no longer used as label prefix, to be able to support $FF syntax 
- '%' (bin), '$' (hex), '#' (hex) number prefixes
- removed ORG label - does not make sense with several segments
- Rename link() to _locate() : only address location is done; make it private, 
  called by bytes()
- Remove restriction on ORG - each new org creates a new segment,
  gaps between the segments are filled with 0xFF (configurable)
- Change 'JR' to 'JP', and 'DJNZ' to 'DEC B:JP NZ' if distance too far
- Publish AsmTable.pm - usefull for disassembler

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2.05_05 2009-08-26
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- Fix Parser.pm version
- Remove dead code
- Improve documentation 
- Tests failed in Unix due to lack of \r processing
- Compatible with perl 5.006, downgraded requirement from 5.008.
- Error in macro expansion : was eating statement terminator

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2.05_04 2009-08-23
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- New Stream class - faster than HOP::Stream, because head element is always 
  available to be read without computation (is_promise() in HOP::Stream) and 
  no test is needed to distinguish a stream node from a array-ref element
  (is_node() in HOP::Stream). The stream has an head element, and a list of
  the next elements, which may contain iterators.
- List object uses the input to the assembler to read the lines again during
  the listing phase, instead of globing all tokens in memory
- Remove usage of HOP::Stream
- Move the macro processing into the parser - removes one level of stream
  processing
- Added the unofficial Z80 opcodes to the test cases
- Benchmark assembly times:
  0.337 sjasmplus
  2.734 z80masm-2.01
  2.738 z80masm-2.05
  2.898 z80masm-current
  3.555 z80masm-2.05_03
 11.342 z80masm-1.03

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2.05_03 2009-08-11
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- Performance : 
  - hand-coded contructor and accessor for Line.pm and Token.pm instead
    of Class::Struct, because too much time was being spent on Token->new()
- Remove Class.pm : plugin replacement to Class::Class to solve RT #42710
- Remove Node.pm : cannot use inheritance with Class::Struct; define different
  modules (Program.pm, Segment.pm, Opcode.pm, Expr.pm) with the same interface
  (child contains list of children of this node).
- All test scripts now pass
- Move test scripts data files to t\data
- Move all bechmarking scripts to tools\benchmark
- New List.pm class to handle output of the assembly file listing at the
  code generation stage.
- New ParserGenerator.pm class to generate a try-based non-backtracking parser.
  Builds a complete state table for the input grammar, where each state is a
  map of current-token => next-state, or current-token => accept-rule, or
  current-token => call-sub-rule. The input grammar accepts 
  rule => token token ... [sub-rule] ... action 
  The sub-rule call accepts optional ('?'), 0 or more ('*') or 1 or more ('+').
  The output is the new Parser.pm module with about 7K states and 20K lines
  of Perl code --> PERFORMANCE PENALTY.
- Remove ParserTable.pm : whole Parser.pm is now generated by
  tools\build_Parser.pl
- Expr.pm parser now checks for the correct syntax. The previous parser just
  extracted balanced parentheses.
- Lexer.pm : 
  - accept db, dw, dt, dm as alias to defb, defw, deft, defm
  - remove quotes from STRING token value
- Line.pm : added back is_equal() and is_different()
- Macro.pm : 
  - return the list of newline tokens parsed inside of a macro 
    definition back to the stream, so that the assembly listing contains 
    also these lines.
  - replace statement_end() by /[:\n]/ -> performance
- Program.pm, Segment.pm : new org() and add() methods to be called by code
  generator.

  The lexer is still the performance botleneck, together with the heavy usage
  of HOP::Stream.
%Time ExclSec CumulS #Calls sec/call Csec/c  Name
 43.7   0.500  3.052  71417   0.0000 0.0000  HOP::Stream::tail
 33.6   0.385  0.665  98780   0.0000 0.0000  HOP::Stream::head
 24.6   0.282  0.466 170197   0.0000 0.0000  HOP::Stream::is_node
 22.4   0.257  1.214  17902   0.0000 0.0001  CPU::Z80::Assembler::Lexer::__ANON__
 21.3   0.244  0.257  67163   0.0000 0.0000  HOP::Stream::is_promise
 20.7   0.237  2.173  34954   0.0000 0.0001  CPU::Z80::Assembler::Macro::__ANON__
 20.4   0.234  0.250      9   0.0260 0.0278  CPU::Z80::Assembler::Macro::BEGIN
 19.6   0.225  0.225 242140   0.0000 0.0000  UNIVERSAL::isa
 18.6   0.213  3.250  71417   0.0000 0.0000  HOP::Stream::drop

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2.05_02	2009-04-25
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- Line.pm, Token.pm : 
  - go back to Class::Struct instead of Class::Class (bad performance of the
    later)
  - do not use "eval(Data::Dump::dump())" for clone - bad performance
  - add overload for 'bool' and '0+' - '""' was being used, and is too slow
    because it uses Data::Dump::dump() internally
  - remomve is_equal() and is_different() methods (Line.pm)

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2.05_01	2009-04-23
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Add Line, Token classes. No need to create LINE tokens - each token carries the
line number.
Change to single-pass design.
Use Class::Class hierarchy for parsed objects. 
Several test scripts fail.
Documentation needs update.
Dead code needs to be removed.

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2.05    2009-01-04
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Fixed VERSION file - wrong version parsed by CPAN.

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2.04	2009-01-04
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Added MANIFEST.SKIP. Created VERSION file.

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2.03    2009-01-04 
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Fixed MANIFEST - missing files.

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2.02    2009-01-04 
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Support undocumented Z80 instructions (t/test_z80.asm)
Auto-generate ParserTable.pm and test_z80.asm, cross
check the assembly with the sjasmplus assembler.
Fix documentation and show usage when called without arguments.
Integer out of range is now a warning instead of a fatal error.
"+d" in "(ix+d)" is optional.

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2.01    2008-07-13 
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10-lexer.t and 11-z80pp.t tests failed in Unix.

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2.00    2008-07-13 
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Re-implemented for speed improvement.
Split into three layers - lexical scanner, instructions 
parser and code generator.
Added Z80 undocumented instructions.
$ in front of labels is optional, accepts lower case 
assembly instructions, improved error messages, 
accepts multiple assembly instructions in a line 
separated by ':'

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1.03    2008-06-25 
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Bugfixes from Paulo Custodio:
see https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=36991

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1.02    2008-06-22 
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Added INCLUDE
Added support for #comments at start of line
(for C pre-processor friendliness)

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1.01    2008-06-14 
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Macro parameters no longer clash with labels
whose names start the same as a parameter.
eg, a param $r no longer clashes with label
$rr
Likewise labels

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1.0     2008-06-13 
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