Re: A83: Unsquish joke
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Re: A83: Unsquish joke
Who's program are you reffering to? Not mine I hope?
Linus Akesson wrote:
>
> Hehe, I just checked the source code of the unsquish program recently posted
> here... Let's see what it does:
>
> xor b
>
> This does not, as the programmer probably intended, clear register b. Doh!
> Result: ldir might trash op2-op6 and beyond them. It might trash the whole
> memory actually.
>
> Before the realtime unsquish engine (c00l coding term, eh?), which
> effectively _insertmems one byte at a time, you find two of the three
> commented lines in the whole program. They are incorrect (as they say hl
> instead of de).
>
> Finally, instead of shifting the accumulator 4 times to the right to obtain
> the most significant bits, this piece of contemporary art is used:
>
> add a, 16
> ld c, -1
> unsquishdata:
> inc c
> add a, -16
> cp 16
> jp nc, unsquishdata
> ld b, a
> ld a, c
>
> I know this was hacked together rather quickly, but you still would expect
> it to perform its task _somewhat_ more efficient.
>
> No offense. =)
>
> Linus
>
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