Release Notes -- Motorola DSP56000 Macro Cross Assembler  Version 2.00
                 Motorola DSP56000 Cross Linker/Librarian Version 1.00


1)  There is a bug in version 2.00 of the assembler which relates to the
    use of counter modifers in the ORG directive.  When in the assembler
    relative mode using the ORG directive with either the L or H counter
    modifiers (e.g. ORG XL:, ORG YH:, etc.) it is possible that the counter
    information will not make it to the link file, causing incorrect code
    generation in some cases.  The only workaround is to use sections
    instead of the L and H modifiers whenever a new set of counters is
    required; the default counters are not affected.  This bug affects all
    implementations and is corrected in 2.01 and subsequent versions of the
    assembler.

2)  In versions 2.00 and 2.01 of the assembler the EQU directive will not
    correctly handle relative arguments.  If the EQU directive is given a
    relocatable operand (such as '*', the current program counter value) it
    will not reflect in the link file that this is a relocatable value.
    This problem frequently crops up when the following programming idiom is
    used to establish a label value:

        FOO    EQU     *

    In this particular case, the EQU is used simply to assign the current
    value of the program counter to the symbol FOO, which can also be done
    by coding FOO on a line by itself.  In other instances, however, there
    is no simple workaround, short of editing the link file directly.  This
    problem is fixed in version 2.02 and subsequent releases of the
    assembler.