Re: A86: Re: sqrtKEY-FORM!! sqrtFORM!
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Re: A86: Re: sqrtKEY-FORM!! sqrtFORM!
So that's what that means! I've oft puzzled over why someone would
apparently treat a label as an equate in the middle of their program;
they must've been using TASM. Does the '$' symbol tell the assembler to
insert the PC or something?
Cassady Roop
David Phillips wrote:
>
> You're not advancing the program counter without assigning values. It's
> like two separate programs. The code for the [sqrt] program will never be
> executing at the same time as the loader. It's just data.
>
> What would the easy way of doing this be? You'd have to do every label for
> the [sqrt] program like...
>
> RandCalls = $-CodeStart
>
> .org seems to much more natural :)
>
> .pad in Assembly Studio acts like .org does in TASM. There has to be a way
> of doing like .org, but since I've never (really) used it, I have no idea
> how.
>
> > yeah, tasm tries to pad .orgs so they are the right amount of space
> > apart.
> > whoever wrote this seems to be really big on "advancing the program
> > counter without assigning values" there's gotta be fifty million ways of
> > doing that
> > there's a .set directive that lets you move a label, that might do the
> > trick.
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