Re: A86: ASM Converter from 85->86

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Re: A86: ASM Converter from 85->86

I had thought of that previosly 2 writing the question,  Reason why I
dicided not to suggest that is this will still leave the source the same
for the programers who created it or have permision,  so in future
updates can become confusing.   The new  include file could be usefull.
but one could still argue u are editing the code,  because the end
result is different.  It would how ever be a quick way 2 recompile an 85
program.


Alan Bailey wrote:

> At 05:26 PM 8/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >>> above all of that, the program to do the conversion would be
> smaller.
> >>Smaller than what?
> >
> >Than a program to change the source code.  If you made a program to
> >account for all possible contingencies in the source code, it would
> be
> >ridiculously large. One that dealt with bytecodes would't have to
> be.  If
>
> That's what a header, or include file is for.  Make it exactly like
> ti-85.h, except have the 86 addresses in there.  Like:
>
> #DEFINE     ROM_CALL(CLEARLCD)           call _clrLCD
>
> I don't know if oyu can do this, but -
>
> #DEFINE     out (6),a                    out (4),a
>
> That would take care of almost everything.  Some things, like _almost
> anything_ dealing with variables, would not be seamlessly convertable.
>
> However, a lot of programmers just put the address in, like $800C
> instead
> of CURSOR_ROW, so that wouldn't work.
>
> All considered, it's just not worth it.  As Dan said, just let the
> author
> take care of porting it.  If they don't want to, ask if you can do it
> for
> them.
>
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