Please help... this problem has halted development.

Problem:

Upon _trying_ to compile some code using Tech-Tools CVASM16, I get the
error:

ERROR IN 160: symbol table full

The reason is because I'm using a lot of equates to make my life a lot
easier and to make good use of memory...IMHO, it's not bad programming
practice to use equates.

I am using some bit-banging to form the final equates.  Because CVASM
resolves all equates strictly from left to right, I end up writing equates
similar to:

LITERAL_TEMP1   equ     PART_1 << SHIFT_1
LITERAL_TEMP2   equ     PART_2 << SHIFT_2
LITERAL         equ     LITERAL_TEMP1 | LITERAL_TEMP2

Instead of just writing (like when using MPASM):

LITERAL         equ     ( PART_1 << SHIFT_1 ) | (PART_2 << SHIFT_2 )

This obviously uses a lot more symbols than necessary.  Does anyone know
how the latter line can be written in strict left-to-write operations
without using parenthesis (CVASM doesn't allow those either)?

Another option would be to write my OWN program to go through the code and
compile a final list of equates, but that's not a fun undertaking and I
_shouldn't_ have to do it.  I can think of no real reason for a commercial
assembler (it is a legit copy too) to have such a limitation... breaking
down a symbol table in precompile stage is not that difficult.  A better
question is how difficult is it to resolve non left-to-right expressions?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Again,

Vincent Deno