Trailing comma when declaring data

[+Karl G]

It took me a bit to track down an obscure bug in my code, which turned out to be caused by accidentally having a trailing comma in a line of data.

 

It seems that when DASM encounters a trailing comma for a line of data, it inserts a NUL at the end. Is this intended/expected behavior?

 

Of course, the best workaround is to not have trailing commas in lines of data, but sometimes mistakes happen when converting a large amount of data. My personal preference would be to have it either ignore a trailing comma (maybe with a warning), or have the assembler bail, yelling at me for my mistake.

 

Thoughts?

[Thomas Jentzsch]

That might break existing code. So the changes should be optional, controlled by e.g. a pseudo op.