How long does it takes to compile an APP for a program that contains about 10 KB of code?

Ah nice, not too long then. I thought it would be like 2 minutes.

Cool. Btw any luck on fixing random crashes with the backup feature? Some people reported that.

I thought it would be that long because a 500 bytes source took about 4 seconds.

I have a (fairly large) bug report:

Try this code compiled to no-shell:

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([01234567])*2→A
For(E,0,7)
Text(E*10,0,nib{A+E}>Dec)
End

It will do what it's supposed to, which is display 01234567 in a row.

Now try compiling it to an app.
It'll display some numbers that are *not* 01234567

How do you compile somthing to an App? Can it be done? WOW


EDIT: I just noticed, is it a shell?

It's not a bug. There are 65536 bytes in RAM, which can all be accessed with a 16-bit pointer, but there are twice as many nibbles. Because of this, you cannot access every nibble in RAM with a 16-bit argument, so it is split into two commands. nib{} will return a nibble from ᴇ8000-ᴇFFFF, and nib{}ʳ will return a nibble from ᴇ0000-ᴇ7FFF.

Now I feel stupid

Thanks Runer!

In Axe, try to close your parentheses/quotes whenver possible. It doesn't add any mem to the program.

It might be messed up thinking the newline and the Text(5,30, after the O in the first line was part of the string, so the " before the W would be closing the string. Then it would be executing WORLD!, where ! is an invalid symbol.

Maybe Axe should stop quotes at a newline? Is this bug only in the newest version?

BUG:  Don't Quote Me!

I show best by example.


Text(5,10,"HELLO"
Text(5,30,"WORLD!"


When compiled it will give an ERROR: BAD SYMBOL  at the 2nd Text(

I fiddled around with it for a while, and to make it work, you have to change it to this V

Text(5,10,"HELLO
Text(5,30,"WORLD!

What is that about?

also i tried this, and it compiled.
Text(5,5,"ERROR: YOU HAVE TOO MANY NOTES"POO
( i know but i use the word poo when testing things....

the only thing that showed up was that square symbol..

A much more reliable way to avoid errors regarding closing quotes/parentheses/brackets is to simply close them all. You will never get an error this way.

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Regarding this:
Text(5,5,"ERROR: YOU HAVE TOO MANY NOTES"POO

Once you closed the string, the parser resumes normal evaluation. This causes it to evaluate P, O, and O as variables, each one replacing the previous value. This results in the final value taking on the value of O, thus the code displays whatever garbage string is pointed to by O.

In case that's somewhat difficult to understand written out, here's pseudocode to represent how the parser interprets that line, instruction by instruction:
Load 5
Store last value into pen X
Load 5
(An instruction that's not important for this simplified pseudocode)
Store last value into pen Y
Load pointer to "ERROR: YOU HAVE TOO MANY NOTES"
Load value of P
Load value of O
Load value of O
Store last value into string pointer
Display string