Document obsolete syntax in rgbasm-old(5)

.github/scripts/install.sh

@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 install -d /usr/local/bin/ /usr/local/share/man/man1/ /usr/local/share/man/man5/ /usr/local/share/man/man7/
 install -s -m 755 rgbasm rgblink rgbfix rgbgfx /usr/local/bin/
 install -m 644 rgbasm.1 rgblink.1 rgbfix.1 rgbgfx.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/
-install -m 644 rgbds.5 rgbasm.5 rgblink.5 /usr/local/share/man/man5/
+install -m 644 rgbds.5 rgbasm.5 rgblink.5 rgbasm-old.5 /usr/local/share/man/man5/
 install -m 644 rgbds.7 gbz80.7 /usr/local/share/man/man7/

.github/workflows/update-master-docs.yml

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ on:
       - man/rgbds.7
       - man/rgbasm.1
       - man/rgbasm.5
+      - man/rgbasm-old.5
       - man/rgblink.1
       - man/rgblink.5
       - man/rgbfix.1

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ set(man1 "man/rgbasm.1"
          "man/rgbgfx.1"
          "man/rgblink.1")
 set(man5 "man/rgbasm.5"
+         "man/rgbasm-old.5"
          "man/rgblink.5"
          "man/rgbds.5")
 set(man7 "man/gbz80.7"

Makefile

@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ install: all
 	$Qinstall ${STRIP} -m ${BINMODE} rgbfix ${DESTDIR}${bindir}/rgbfix${SUFFIX}
 	$Qinstall ${STRIP} -m ${BINMODE} rgbgfx ${DESTDIR}${bindir}/rgbgfx${SUFFIX}
 	$Qinstall -m ${MANMODE} man/rgbasm.1 man/rgblink.1 man/rgbfix.1 man/rgbgfx.1 ${DESTDIR}${mandir}/man1/
-	$Qinstall -m ${MANMODE} man/rgbds.5 man/rgbasm.5 man/rgblink.5 ${DESTDIR}${mandir}/man5/
+	$Qinstall -m ${MANMODE} man/rgbds.5 man/rgbasm.5 man/rgbasm-old.5 man/rgblink.5 ${DESTDIR}${mandir}/man5/
 	$Qinstall -m ${MANMODE} man/rgbds.7 man/gbz80.7 ${DESTDIR}${mandir}/man7/
 
 # Target used to check for suspiciously missing changed files.

RELEASE.md

@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ GitHub.
 
       If you do not have `groff` installed, you can change
       `groff -Tpdf -mdoc -wall` to `mandoc -Tpdf -I os=Linux` in
-      [.github/actions/get-pages.sh](.github/actions/get-pages.sh) and it
-      will suffice.
+      [maintainer/man_to_html.sh](https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds-www/blob/master/maintainer/man_to_html.sh)
+      and it will suffice.
 
    4. Commit and push the documentation. You can use <code>git commit -m
       "Create RGBDS <i>&lt;tag&gt;</i> documentation"</code> and `git push origin master`

man/gbz80.7

@@ -2083,6 +2083,7 @@ Flags: See
 .Xr rgblink 1 ,
 .Xr rgbfix 1 ,
 .Xr rgbgfx 1 ,
+.Xr rgbasm-old 5 ,
 .Xr rgbds 7
 .Sh HISTORY
 .Xr rgbasm 1

man/rgbasm-old.5

@@ -0,0 +1,342 @@
+'\" e
+.\"
+.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+.\"
+.Dd October 21, 2024
+.Dt RGBASM-OLD 5
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm rgbasm-old
+.Nd obsolete language documentation
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This is the list of features that have been removed from the
+.Xr rgbasm 5
+assembly language over its decades of evolution, along with their modern alternatives.
+Its goal is to be a reference for backwards incompatibility, when upgrading an old assembly codebase to work with the latest RGBDS release.
+It does
+.Em not
+attempt to list syntax bugs that were fixed, nor new reserved keywords that may conflict with old identifiers.
+.Sh REMOVED
+These are features which have been completely removed, without any direct alternatives.
+Usually these features were limiting the addition of other features, or had awkward limits on their own intended effects.
+.Ss Global labels without colons
+Deprecated in 0.4.0, removed in 0.5.0.
+.Pp
+Labels used to be definable with just a name, but had to be typed in column 1.
+.Pp
+Instead, use explicit colons; for example,
+.Ql Label:
+or exported
+.Ql Label:: .
+.Ss Automatic LD to LDH conversion (rgbasm -l)
+Deprecated in 0.7.0, removed in 0.8.0.
+.Pp
+.Xr rgbasm 1
+used to automatically treat
+.Ql LD
+as
+.Ql LDH
+if the address was known to be in the
+.Ad $FF00-$FFFF
+range, with the
+.Fl L
+flag to opt out.
+.Xr rgbasm 1
+0.6.0 added a
+.Fl l
+flag to opt in instead.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ql LDH ,
+and remove the
+.Fl L
+and
+.Fl l
+flags from
+.Xr rgbasm 1 .
+.Ss Automatic NOP after HALT (rgbasm -H)
+Deprecated in 0.7.0, removed in 0.8.0.
+.Pp
+.Xr rgbasm 1
+used to automatically insert a
+.Ql NOP
+after
+.Ql HALT ,
+with the
+.Fl h
+flag to opt out.
+.Xr rgbasm 1
+0.6.0 added a
+.Fl H
+flag to opt in instead.
+.Pp
+Instead, use an explicit
+.Ql NOP
+after
+.Ql HALT ,
+and remove the
+.Fl h
+and
+.Fl H
+flags from
+.Xr rgbasm 1 .
+.Ss IMPORT and XREF
+Removed in 0.4.0.
+.Pp
+Symbols are now automatically resolved if they were exported from elsewhere.
+.Pp
+Instead, just remove these directives.
+.Ss __FILE__ and __LINE__
+Deprecated in 0.6.0, removed in 0.7.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ic WARN
+or
+.Ic FAIL
+to print a complete trace of filenames and line numbers.
+.Ss _PI
+Deprecated in 0.5.0, removed in 0.6.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ql DEF _PI EQU 3.141592653 .
+.Ss '\e,' in strings within macro arguments
+Deprecated in 0.5.0, removed in 0.7.0.
+.Pp
+Macro arguments now handle quoted strings and parenthesized expressions as single arguments, so commas inside them are not argument separators and do not need escaping.
+.Pp
+Instead, just use commas without backslashes.
+.Ss '*' comments
+Deprecated in 0.4.1, removed in 0.5.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ql \&;
+comments.
+.Ss Nested macro definitions
+Removed in 0.4.2.
+.Pp
+Instead, put the nested macro definition inside a quoted string (making sure that none of its lines start with
+.Ic ENDM ) ,
+then interpolate that string.
+For example:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+MACRO outer
+    DEF definition EQUS """
+        MACRO inner
+            println (\1) - (\\1)
+        \enENDM"""
+    {definition}
+    PURGE definition
+ENDM
+    outer 10
+    inner 3 ; prints 7
+.Ed
+.Ss Negative DS
+Removed in 0.3.2.
+.Pp
+This was used to "rewind" the value of
+.Ic @
+in RAM sections, allowing labeled space allocations to overlap.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ic UNION .
+.Ss Treating multi-character strings as numbers
+Deprecated in 0.9.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use a multi-value
+.Ic CHARMAP ,
+or explicitly combine the values of individual characters.
+.Ss rgbgfx -f/--fix and -F/--fix-and-save
+Removed in 0.6.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ql rgbgfx -c/--colors
+to explicitly specify a color palette.
+If using
+.Ql -c embedded ,
+arrange the PNG's indexed palette in a separate graphics editor.
+.Ss rgbgfx -D/--debug
+Removed in 0.6.0.
+.Sh REPLACED
+These are features whose syntax has been changed without affecting functionality.
+They can generally be updated with a single search-and-replace.
+.Ss Defining constants and variables without DEF
+Deprecated in 0.7.0, removed in 0.8.0.
+.Pp
+.Ic EQU , EQUS , = , RB , RW ,
+and
+.Ic RL
+definitions used to just start with the symbol name, but had to be typed in column 1.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ic DEF
+before constant and variable definitions.
+Note that
+.Ic EQUS
+expansion does not occur for the symbol name, so you have to use explicit
+.Ql {interpolation} .
+.Ss Defining macros like labels
+Deprecated in 0.6.0, removed in 0.7.0.
+.Pp
+Macros used to be defined as
+.Ql name: MACRO .
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ql MACRO name .
+Note that
+.Ic EQUS
+expansion does not occur for the macro name, so you have to use explicit
+.Ql {interpolation} .
+.Ss Defining variables with SET
+Deprecated in 0.5.2, removed in 0.6.0.
+.Pp
+Variables used to be defined as
+.Ql name SET value .
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ql DEF name = value .
+.Ss PRINTT, PRINTI, PRINTV, and PRINTF
+Deprecated in 0.5.0, removed in 0.6.0.
+.Pp
+These directives were each specific to one type of value.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ic PRINT
+and
+.Ic PRINTLN ,
+with
+.Ic STRFMT
+or
+.Ql {interpolation}
+for type-specific formatting.
+.Ss GLOBAL and XDEF
+Deprecated in 0.4.2, removed in 0.5.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ic EXPORT .
+.Ss HOME, CODE, DATA, and BSS
+Deprecated in 0.3.0, removed in 0.4.0.
+.Pp
+Instead of
+.Ic HOME ,
+use
+.Ic ROM0 ;
+instead of
+.Ic CODE
+and
+.Ic DATA ,
+use
+.Ic ROMX ;
+instead of
+.Ic BSS ,
+use
+.Ic  WRAM0 .
+.Ss JP [HL]
+Deprecated in 0.3.0, removed in 0.4.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ql JP HL .
+.Ss LDI A, HL and LDD A, HL
+Deprecated in 0.3.0, removed in 0.4.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ql LDI A, [HL]
+and
+LDD A, [HL]
+(or
+.Ql LD A, [HLI]
+and
+.Ql LD A, [HLD] ;
+or
+LD A, [HL+]
+and
+.Ql LD A, [HL-] ) .
+.Ss LD HL, [SP + e8]
+Deprecated in 0.3.0, removed in 0.4.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ql LD HL, SP + e8 .
+.Ss LDIO
+Deprecated in 0.9.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Ql LDH .
+.Ss rgbasm -i
+Deprecated in 0.6.0, removed in 0.8.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Fl I
+or
+.Fl -include .
+.Ss rgbgfx -h
+Removed in 0.6.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Fl Z
+or
+.Fl -columns .
+.Ss rgbgfx --output-*
+Deprecated in 0.7.0, removed in 0.8.0.
+.Pp
+Instead, use
+.Fl -auto-* .
+.Sh CHANGED
+These are breaking changes that did not alter syntax, and so could not practically be deprecated.
+.Ss Trigonometry function units
+Changed in 0.6.0.
+.Pp
+Instead of dividing a circle into 65536.0 "binary degrees", it is now divided into 1.0 "turns".
+.Pp
+For example, previously we had:
+.EQ
+delim $$
+.EN
+.Bl -bullet -offset indent
+.It
+.Ql SIN(0.25) == 0.00002 ,
+because 0.25 binary degrees = $0.25 / 65536.0$ turns = $0.000004 tau$ radians = $0.000008 pi$ radians, and $sin ( 0.000008 pi ) = 0.00002$
+.It
+.Ql SIN(16384.0) == 1.0 ,
+because 16384.0 binary degrees = $16384.0 / 65536.0$ turns = $0.25 tau$ radians = $pi / 2$ radians, and $sin ( pi / 2 ) = 1$
+.It
+.Ql ASIN(1.0) == 16384.0
+.El
+.Pp
+Instead, now we have:
+.Bl -bullet -offset indent
+.It
+.Ql SIN(0.25) == 1.0 ,
+because $0.25$ turns = $0.25 tau$ radians = $pi / 2$ radians, and $sin ( pi / 2 ) = 1$
+.It
+.Ql SIN(16384.0) == 0.0 ,
+because $16384$ turns = $16384 tau$ radians = $32768 pi$ radians, and $sin ( 32768 pi ) = 0$
+.It
+.Ql ASIN(1.0) == 0.25
+.El
+.EQ
+delim off
+.EN
+.Ss ** operator associativity
+Changed in 0.9.0.
+.Pp
+Instead of being left-associative,
+.Ql **
+is now right-associative.
+.Pp
+Previously we had
+.Ql p ** q ** r == (p ** q) ** r .
+.Pp
+Instead, now we have
+.Ql p ** q ** r == p ** (q ** r) .
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr rgbasm 1 ,
+.Xr gbz80 7 ,
+.Xr rgbds 5 ,
+.Xr rgbds 7
+.Sh HISTORY
+.Xr rgbasm 1
+was originally written by
+.An Carsten S\(/orensen
+as part of the ASMotor package, and was later repackaged in RGBDS by
+.An Justin Lloyd .
+It is now maintained by a number of contributors at
+.Lk https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds .