https://github.com/AntonTreuenfels/HXA-Cross-Assembler-1.000

Only ten years after the last version, a new release.

Notable differences:

- source language is Python 3.11.4 (updated from Thompson AWK 5.0)
- support for Unicode (several forms) and Latin-1 text output (in addition to ASCII)
- an explicit string concatenation operator (instead of an implied one)
- a new "raw" output text file of just hexadecimal character data (in addition to the more decorated Motorola SRecord and Intel Hex forms)
- a single "cpu-aware" module is dynamically loaded at run time (add native support for any cpu just by writing a new module)

There are a few bug fixes, like incorrect extensions on 16- and 32-bit cpu SRecords (now always T- and U- records, as was discussed years ago).

It currently passes all existing regression and demonstration tests.

Any re-writing of existing code is mostly going to be limited to adding the string concatenation operator and doubling any single escapes in regular expression literals.

Wow - I do believe I remember coming across that, the combination of 6502 and awk being just my kind of thing! But surely the change is a good idea. (In fact checking my mails, looks like I was briefly in conversation with Anton.)

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