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Slammer
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 416 |
Kick Assembler Thread 2
The previous thread took a little long to load, so this is a new fresh one.. |
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Lead
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 20 |
I couldnt find a better topic to post this in, but I've got a naming challenge for macros with Kick.
If I use one of the macro's of Codebase, or write one myself, I would like to use the filename of this macro to name the memory area properly in the Memory map output of Kick. But whatever I seem to do, I cannot attach the filename to be part of the name of the memory area.
There's probably a way to do it but I cant find it in documentation, this form or anywhere.
The macro might look something like (pseudocode):
.macro MacroName (filename, address) {
.pc = address "Tables"
}
I would like to add the filename as send to the macro the the memory name (MyName) so it would be something like "Tables "+filename but i keep getting errors.
What is the proper way to use one of the variables send to the macro as part of the memory area name ? |
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ruk
Registered: Jan 2012
Posts: 43 |
@Lead: I've previously failed numerous attempts of doing the same thing. My conclusion is that the .pc directive can *only* take a string and not an expression as an argument for the name.
If you're reading this Slammer, +1 for supporting this :-) |
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Lead
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 20 |
Yes I'm afraid so aswell, hope Slammer sees, support for variable names would be awesome for those that want to keep an organized eye on the memory map.
I was afraid the way I subscribe was not beeing understood by people as there was little reply. I will try to explain a bit more accurate so people know what I mean for sure ;)
Here's some coding, this is not a function I created to use in production but more as a test :
.macro getFile(fileName, loadAdr) {
.pc = loadAdr "Image"
.var picture = LoadPicture(fileName, List().add($444444, $6c6c6c,$959595,$000000))
.fill $800, picture.getMulticolorByte(i>>7,i&$7f)
}
use with :getFile("image.png", $2000)
This will correctly load a file to memory at $2000 and will show up in memorymap like this when you have more images :
Memory Map
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$0801-$080c Basic
$0900-$0910 Main Code
$2000-$27ff Image
$2800-$2fff Image
$3000-$37ff Image
That's where I want to keep my namings in order ;) |
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Slammer
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 416 |
Hi, I do check this thread, so any questions asked will be answered eventually. Also, I wanna stay a bit in the background to give other users room for stating their views and experiences.
In the case of the PC directive, you are right, the .pc directive only takes a string, not an expression. I don't think it will be a big deal to change so I'll see what I can do. |
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Lead
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 20 |
Hi Slammer thanks for confirming, I understand and think you do the right thing with staying a bit in the background so others can share their thoughs aswell.
In this case though it seems that there are very little people the came across this iussue or had anything to say about it (other than Ruk). You're right on the fact that eventually stuff gets answered in this thread... I've been reading this one all the way. there's some good stuff hidden below ;) |
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Slammer
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 416 |
Lead: Its always cool to know how other people does things, and with discussions in the KickAss-facebook group and by mail together with doing a bit of demo stuff and some other projects its hard to get time to code new features for Kick Assembler. That why i really want to encourage people to help answering questions.
Btw. The official 'Kick Assembler Wish List' is in the facebook group. Feel free to drop by and enter your wishes. |
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Lead
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 20 |
I just got on the MickAss facebook and saw there is no need for me to add it to the feature request list as it allready is there :
- Auto naming of memory blocks after variables, so you can write: .pc = coolRoutine, and it shows up as coolRoutine in the memory map, instead of "unnamed".
At least, I assume this is the same as I requested. I'll keep an eye on that page and hope this will be implemented in a future update :)
If I come up with other idea's you;ll see them either here or there... |
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Slammer
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 416 |
I gave it a look and found out that both the name and virtual parameters are optional which makes it impossible if we shall maintain backwards compatibility since the parser can see the difference between a string and a indentifer, but not between an expression and an identifer.
Technical talk, i know.. However the wish stays on the wish list. I might revice the .pc syntax in a later version. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
What about a .name directive with a more elaborate syntax, in addition to what is already possible?
.pc = $2000
.name fileNameOfMacro + " at " + * // result: myMacro.asm at $2000
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Fresh
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 101 |
Hi slammer,
first of all thanks for a great tool.
I have a little problem with "arrays of labels". This kind of problem is partially solvable (pantaloon already pointed out a working solution in this thread) but it can't be used in every contexts.
The sample code:
.var test=List()
.for(var i=0;i<10;i++)
.for(var j=0;j<random()*20;j++)
{
.eval test.add(*)
.byte i
}
main:
lda test.get(0)
rts
This works fine but using a List to store the addresses brings some problem if I need to swap code and data:
.var test=List()
main:
lda test.get(0)
rts
.for(var i=0;i<10;i++)
.for(var j=0;j<random()*20;j++)
{
.eval test.add(*)
.byte i
}
This clearly doesn't work because I'm trying to get values from a List which is still empty.
So, based on my example, what to do if the code needs to be located *before* the data? Maybe defining a List of ".label" which may be evaluated after some passes? |
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