Bug in global LBL generation on dm41.swissmicros.com

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Bernd
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Bug in global LBL generation on dm41.swissmicros.com

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There seems of be a bug in the generation of the first global label generation.
The first global LBL in RAM should have a byte code of the structure "c0 00 fn 00 <n-chars>". The three zero nybbles after the C denote the byte distance to the previous global LBL. In case of the first LBL, the distance must be zero.

The generated code generated by pressing the "<-- Encode --" is correct, when the first instruction in the code listing is a global LBL.
E.g.:

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LBL "X"
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results in

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DM41
08  4b000000000000  00000000000000  00000000000000  00000000000000
0c  1000000000019c  1a70016919c19a  0000002c048000  00000000000000
198  00000000000000  00000000000000  00000000c8012f  c000f200584000
...
The byte code "c0 00 f2 00 58" in register 19b means LBL "X".

When I swap the two instructions:

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LBL "X"
the distance information is incorrect:

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DM41
08  4b000000000000  00000000000000  00000000000000  00000000000000
0c  1000000000019c  1a70016919c19a  0000002c048000  00000000000000
198  00000000000000  00000000000000  00000000c6012f  40c200f2005800
...
I discovered this bug when trying to upload the "LBX" program of K. Jarett's "Synthetic programming made easy", which starts with a LBL 01.
As a obvious workaround I have put a global LBL at the beginning of the listing, which I later removed on the DM-41L.
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