Re: A86: undeleting and a bunch of stuff on memory

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: undeleting and a bunch of stuff on memory
From: Butler Family <butler2@erols.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 23:06:06 -0500
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Grams Family wrote:

> At 04:50 PM 10/31/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Grams Family wrote:
> >
> >> weird things in the VAT. There's the Ans variable, which makes sense. But
> >> there are also two programs called ! and #. One of them seems to be 7 bytes
> >> long, and the other seems to be 0 (?) bytes long. I tried renaming one of
> >> them to A. It worked fine while the jmv was running, but when I quit, it
> >> hung the calc.
> >
> >i bet the ! is a factotrial program in asm maybe and # sign is a program that
> >does what ever it's supposed to do in math (i am only in alg II honors).  i
> >seem to have msiplace the vat for programs now and i can only read part of it
> >does it stay in the same place all the time?
>
> No, I think they're related to running asm programs, or something. ! is 0
> bytes long. # is 8 bytes long, looks like this:
>
>    adc a,(hl)
>    dec h
>    djnz $+35    ;current offset + 35h
>    .db "jmv",$11
>
> renaming this hangs the calc on quitting jmv. So they're not math
> functions, a factorial function wouldn't get called on quitting a program.
> The VAT just starts at the end of RAM page 7 and works downward in memory.
>
> --Joshua

  i was just saying that it could be something but i havent seen the entry he's
talking about it might be anything but i havent seen it.  program names seem to
hace a sqrt sign in front of the but we might be talking about 2 different parts
of memory since this was in the fixed part of RAM memory

Patrick

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Re: A86: undeleting and a bunch of stuff on memory

From: Grams Family <grams@netcarrier.com>