[A83] Re: Storage + Fat binaries

To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: [A83] Re: Storage + Fat binaries
From: "Ronald Teune" <rtwolf@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:11:43 +0100
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org


>Though you could write a shell that lets programs start at e.g. 9D00,
>and then call to it.
>
>BTW, I got an idea about Fat Binaries, like the mac uses...
>It'd kinda look like this:
>[header]
>.db "Identifier"
>.db 83_start
>.db 83p_start
>.db shared_size
>.db 83_size
>.db 83p_size
>.db "Program_name",0
>[Shared Lib's]
>Shared code, routines to call to....
>maybe with something like
>"
>call do_it
>.dw offset
>"
>[TI83 part]
>Bunch of code...
>...more code
>[Ti83+ part]
>Bunch of ti-83 plus specific code....
>[end]
>
>a "compatible" shell, could then load the part of the needed program to the
>right starting point and load the shared_code at the end of the selected
>program code. (so you get [.org address][program code][shared code])
>
>the shell could contain a "shared lib caller", that'd jump to the
>shared lib starting address + offset (maybe in bcall style...)
>
>Though it would kinda double the program size, it'd let you be able to
>transfer games err... programs to and fro between an 83- and an 83+
>
>Anyone like it?

Yes, nice idea. But if it would double the progsize, I don't think anyone on
the 83- would use it because of the small mem.

>--Peter-Martijn
>
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>> Everything before 9327h is used by the TIOS.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "mexicanoguy aka the nazgul" <mexicanoguy@hotmail.com>
>> To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 10:39
>> Subject: [A83] Storage
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>> > This goes for the TI-83 (-)
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>> > Could a program be stored (by the OS) in a way that $9327 is an adress
>> > somewhere in the middle of the program? So what I actually mean is:
does
>> the
>> > program space start at $9327, or is there space before it? TIA
>> >
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