Re: Compass improvement??? Jon! Listen!
Yeah! Let's for example tokenize CALL as #CD, RET as #C9 etc... Well yes, that was the idea. Would assemble really fast, wouldn't it? And if use #FF as opcode for other things like labels or comments... (#FF #FF = RST #38). #21 #00 #00 would then be LD HL,# in the code and #21 #FF "LABEL1" would be LD HL,LABEL1. Gee... again, this already exists and it's called OBJECT CODE! 8:D But the great thing is... that it's indeed a great idea and it would work! ZX Spectrum used straight tokenized BASIC, and most BASICs (if not all) tokenize internally. I'm also coding a PostScript tokenizer for small computers! Then the assembling pass would *somewhat* disappear... direct linking?!? Kiss you. MARK 2 MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
RE: Compass improvement??? Jon! Listen!
Hey... hey!!! JON!!! Listen!!! Can't you tokenize the source in Compass??? This has two advantages: 1. the assembling-speed will be increased drastically, and 2. the size of the .ASM-files will be reduced a lot! Yeah! Let's for example tokenize CALL as #CD, RET as #C9 etc... :-) Eric MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Compass improvement??? Jon! Listen!
JON!!! Listen!!! Can't you tokenize the source in Compass??? This has two advantages: 1. the assembling-speed will be increased drastically, and 2. the size of the .ASM-files will be reduced a lot! Tokenized assembler already exists. It's called machine code! 8;D MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Compass improvement??? Jon! Listen!
Hey... hey!!! JON!!! Listen!!! Can't you tokenize the source in Compass??? This has two advantages: 1. the assembling-speed will be increased drastically, and 2. the size of the .ASM-files will be reduced a lot! Yeah! Let's for example tokenize CALL as #CD, RET as #C9 etc... Well yes, that was the idea. Would assemble really fast, wouldn't it? And if use #FF as opcode for other things like labels or comments... (#FF #FF = RST #38). #21 #00 #00 would then be LD HL,# in the code and #21 #FF "LABEL1" would be LD HL,LABEL1. ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit the Datax homepage at http://datax.cjb.net/ MSX fair Bussum / MSX Marathon homepage: http://msxfair.cjb.net/ MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Compass improvement??? Jon! Listen!
JON!!! Listen!!! I'm here!! Hehe... Can't you tokenize the source in Compass??? This has two advantages: 1. the assembling-speed will be increased drastically, and 2. the size of the .ASM-files will be reduced a lot! You can include an option to let the user decide if the code is upper-or lowecase... I'm busy with that sort of stuff for version 2.0. It's not really tokenized, but during the editing process, the format is already optimized for the assemblermodule... Hmmm... You put the corresponding assemblercode already 'behind' the text while editing or so??? Well, anyways, it's nice if it could assemble even faster (you should really pass WBASS concerning this). Well, maybe it's not a good idea... Just check it out. that's what I've been doing past months... Okidoki. Another remark: the TABS are wrong sometimes. If a label is exactly the length of the TAB, then if I put comments behind it the space inbetween will not be taken into account by Compass, resulting in the comment not being seperated from the code. Example: LD(COPYFILENAME+8),A;Fill in copydata... Do you get what I mean? yup, but depends where you like the ;blabla... immediately behind the code or on the next TAB. It is assembled correct if I'm right... Dunno. But it looks really strange, so I suggest you always assume a space before the ;comment in the next version. ~Grauw "awaiting Compass 2.0.00 -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit the Datax homepage at http://datax.cjb.net/ MSX fair Bussum / MSX Marathon homepage: http://msxfair.cjb.net/ MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Compass improvement??? Jon! Listen!
JON!!! Listen!!! Can't you tokenize the source in Compass??? This has two advantages: 1. the assembling-speed will be increased drastically, and 2. the size of the .ASM-files will be reduced a lot! Tokenized assembler already exists. It's called machine code! 8;D Mwa. Machine code doesn't support labels. But the fastest/easiest tokenizing is to use the same tokens as machine code, indeed. ~Grauw -- email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ICQ: 10196372 visit the Datax homepage at http://datax.cjb.net/ MSX fair Bussum / MSX Marathon homepage: http://msxfair.cjb.net/ MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
Re: Compass improvement??? Jon! Listen!
Laurens Holst wrote: - source length limit of about 20K, even though the source is tokenized, this is not enough (especially comments take lots of space) Hey... hey!!! JON!!! Listen!!! I'm here!! Can't you tokenize the source in Compass??? This has two advantages: 1. the assembling-speed will be increased drastically, and 2. the size of the .ASM-files will be reduced a lot! You can include an option to let the user decide if the code is upper-or lowecase... I'm busy with that sort of stuff for version 2.0. It's not really tokenized, but during the editing process, the format is already optimized for the assemblermodule... Well, maybe it's not a good idea... Just check it out. that's what I've been doing past months... Another remark: the TABS are wrong sometimes. If a label is exactly the length of the TAB, then if I put comments behind it the space inbetween will not be taken into account by Compass, resulting in the comment not being seperated from the code. Example: LD(COPYFILENAME+8),A;Fill in copydata... Do you get what I mean? yup, but depends where you like the ;blabla... immediately behind the code or on the next TAB. It is assembled correct if I'm right... CU jon MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
