5. Problems and workarounds

Older versions of VICE had several problems with labels. However, even those versions were still tremendously useful, and all known problems are gone in current versions. So, here is a list of the problems known to me as of version 0.16.1:

• The "ll" command does not work. Worse, it seems that internal memory gets corrupted when using this command, so VICE will crash after use. Use the "pb" command to load the label file in this case.
• VICE will crash if you use a label that is undefined. This is probably the worst problem of all, since it needs just one typo to kill VICE. So, watch your steps:-)
• Cheap labels, that is, labels starting with '@' or '?' are not accepted.
• The disassembly output is somewhat suboptimal. However, most things are just cosmetical, e.g. labels appended to the right side of the disassembled code.

Note: All these problems are fixed in current (>= 1.0) VICE versions. If you're really using such an old version, you should think about an upgrade.