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In article <2003@ut-sally.UUCP> brian@ut-sally.UUCP (Brian H. Powell) writes:
>     Has anybody perfected the task of writing pure assembly language
>code for the Macintosh using the Lisa's assembler?  (pure = not declaring
>all of your variables in Pascal and passing their address(es) to an assembly
>routine.) For those of you without Lisa's, the problem is that the assembler
>only believes in the program space. The Pascal compiler is the only program
>endowed with knowledge of the data space.
>Brian H. Powell      brian@ut-sally.{ARPA,UUCP}

Once I discovered the ".main <module name>" directive, generating pure 
assembly mac applications worked for me. I just declare variables as
.word, .long, .byte or whatever and do a "lea	var, a0" or similar
to get it's address. This is foolish but it works. Pascal seems to 
reference all of it's globals off a stack frame pointed to by a5. This
is not a bad strategy to adopt and certainly faster that the "lea"
method. 
All in all, I'd switch to the MDS.
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