HC11

1.1 INTRODUCTION

This is the user's reference manual for the IBM-PC hosted Motorola
Freeware 8 bit cross assemblers. It details the features and
capabilities of the cross assemblers, assembler syntax and
directives, options, and listings. It is intended as a detailed
reference and an introduction for those unfamiliar with Motorola
assembler syntax and format. Those experienced with Motorola
assembler products may wish to examine the file ASSEMBLER.DOC
available with the cross assemblers, which briefly describes the
differences between these assemblers and earlier, non-pc based
versions.

Assemblers are programs that process assembly language source program
statements and translate them into executable machine language object
files. A programmer writes his source program using any text editor
or word processor that can produce an ASCII text output. With some
word processors this is kno...