package mars.assembler;

/*
Copyright (c) 2003-2006,  Pete Sanderson and Kenneth Vollmar

Developed by Pete Sanderson (psanderson@otterbein.edu)
and Kenneth Vollmar (kenvollmar@missouristate.edu)

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 */

/**
 * This interface is intended for use by ExtendedInstruction objects to define, using
 * the translate() method, how to translate the extended (pseudo) instruction into
 * a sequence of one or more basic instructions, which can then be translated into 
 * binary machine code.
 * 
 * @author Pete Sanderson
 * @version August 2003
 */

public interface TranslationCode {
      /**
       *  This is a callback method defined in anonymous class specified as 
       *  argument to ExtendedInstruction constructor.  It is called when
       *  assembler finds a program statement matching that ExtendedInstruction,
       */
	public void translate();
}