> On Mar 6, 2020, at 4:16 PM, Rhialto <rhia...@falu.nl> wrote:
>
> On Fri 06 Mar 2020 at 08:18:07 -0800, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>> macro11 will assemble this once (or try to, without much success)
>> anyway, despite the ?0?. Is there a reason for this, or is this
>> just a bug?
>
> I guess it's a bug. The code in rept_irpc.c line 44 seems to decrement
> and check the count only at the end of producing the body of the REPT
> block. That is easily fixed. Several of the regression tests pick up a
> change now and I think it looks correct.
>
> I am listing the repeat count as a computed value. I'm not sure if the
> original MACRO11 did this but it seems practical.
It does:
.MAIN. MACRO V05.05 Monday 07-Mar-88 09:40 Page 1
1 000042 a=42
2 000001 .rept a-41
3 .word 44
4 .endr
000000 000044 .word 44
5 000000 .rept 0
6 .word frob
7 .endr
8 000001 .end
paul
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