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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #240 on: May 30, 2010, 01:24:41 am »
what would sub-routine usage in expression do?

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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #241 on: May 30, 2010, 01:35:00 am »
what would sub-routine usage in expression do?

In my example:
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91-(sub(CS))
I have:
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Lbl CS
S=8*2
Return

This allows me to return a calculation I use in many places throughout the program without having to retype the expression everywhere it is needed, thereby reducing program size.
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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #242 on: May 30, 2010, 01:48:32 am »
aaaah ok I see. Sounds like a cool idea :)

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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #243 on: May 30, 2010, 08:37:22 am »
Right. That is exactly how I did it on the calculator. Token for token, hex for hex, and number for number

edit: Ok, I added the same [xxxxxxxxx]->pic1 right after pause 100, and it worked... I guess it forgot that pic1 was stored?  :o
edit: I put the diagnostic off after the sprite, and it worked. I think thats what did it
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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #244 on: May 30, 2010, 01:58:04 pm »
strange I didn't realise the order would make much of a difference. It's always a habit for me to put the entire data at the very top of the program, below the header, though, so I never really encountered this.

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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #245 on: May 30, 2010, 04:29:29 pm »
I don't think that retrieving and storing two-byte expressions work correctly. Both of the following examples would be affected:

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{V+2}r→T
T→{L1+2}r

I believe this is because, although the r modifier is supposed to simply signify two bytes in this case, it signifies both two bytes and it swaps the bytes. Taking the first line as an example, if {V+2}=01 and {V+3}=F0, T becomes F001, although one would think that it should become 01F0. The second example acts even more oddly, the incorrect behavior of which I am spending a lot of time trying to counteract.


EDIT: This really needs looking into. I've spend the last hour just trying to get a few two-byte values to work correctly. And I haven't even been successful yet.

ANOTHER EDIT: I finally got it to work, but the code that makes it work took a lot of trial and error and doesn't logically make sense. This is still a problem that needs to be checked.


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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #246 on: May 30, 2010, 06:10:00 pm »
So if i understand you correctly, you are saying that storing 2 byte numbers works incorrectly because it stores the bytes in backwards order?

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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #247 on: May 30, 2010, 06:12:26 pm »
So if i understand you correctly, you are saying that storing 2 byte numbers works incorrectly because it stores the bytes in backwards order?

I'm really not sure anymore. I just spent over an hour trying to get two-byte data manipulations to work in my program. What works in one case doesn't work in another case. I can't explain what is wrong anymore, it doesn't even seem to be a constant flaw.

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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #248 on: May 30, 2010, 06:14:05 pm »
Do you understand how if i store a 2 byte number into {L1+0}, the first byte gets stored into {L1+1} and the second byte into {L1+0}?  This is what is known as Little-Endian format (since the little end goes in first)

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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #249 on: May 30, 2010, 06:18:35 pm »
Do you understand how if i store a 2 byte number into {L1+0}, the first byte gets stored into {L1+1} and the second byte into {L1+0}?  This is what is known as Little-Endian format (since the little end goes in first)

Ok wait, I'm confused now. If I stored 1025 (0401) into {L1+2}r, I would get {L1+2}=01 and {L1+3}=04? Then what would I get if I evaluated {L1+2}r?

EDIT: Shit fail, now it all makes sense... :-[ *facepalm, goes to strike out other posts*
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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #250 on: May 30, 2010, 06:28:49 pm »
That is correct, and then when you evaluated {L1+2}r it would evaluate right back to 1025

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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #251 on: May 30, 2010, 07:17:41 pm »
Right. That is exactly how I did it on the calculator. Token for token, hex for hex, and number for number

edit: Ok, I added the same [xxxxxxxxx]->pic1 right after pause 100, and it worked... I guess it forgot that pic1 was stored?  :o
edit: I put the diagnostic off after the sprite, and it worked. I think thats what did it
That shouldn't be happening, I'll look into it.

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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #252 on: May 30, 2010, 07:22:16 pm »
allrighty then. Yeah, I hated little-endian too.
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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #253 on: May 31, 2010, 12:08:59 am »
I always wondered what was little-endian before. Glad people summed it up now, because the Wikipedia article seemed to be TL;DR x.x

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Re: Bug Reports
« Reply #254 on: June 01, 2010, 05:21:02 pm »
Yeah, it can definitely be annoying at first, though, as the wikipedia article states, there are advantages to it, namely that different-length parts of the data can all be accessed at the same address and extending a number is pretty easy (just add 0's), though the second point is a bit less important for z80 programming.
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