A89: Re: TIGCCLIB 2.2 - SDK Documentation

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A89: Re: TIGCCLIB 2.2 - SDK Documentation


A quick question. You mention TI's SDK documentation. Where did you get
that from? As far as I knew TI had never released much of any use to ASM/C
programmers for the TI-89/92+

Wesley

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:34:18PM +0200, Zeljko Juric wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I just uploaded a new release of TIGCCLIB (2.2) on
> ticalc. I hope that it will appear in the archive as
> soon as possible. The major change in this release is
> the documentation, which is completely rearanged and
> thrice larger than in the previous release (if someone
> from TI reads this, just to know that absolutely nothing
> is picked from their SDK documentation). I hope that you
> will like the new look of the documentation (and the
> documentation too, of course). Frequently Asked Question
> list is now really full of useful tips. Here is a 
> complete list of what is new in this release:
> 
> - The documentation for the release 2.2 is completely
>   rearanged to make it much more readable. Moreover, 
>   the documentation now contains not only information 
>   about library functions, but about the whole TIGCC 
>   project, including the compiler options, a brief 
>   reference to C language keywords, operators and 
>   punctuators, description of GNU C language extensions,
>   GNU Assember, and much more. The Frequently Asked 
>   Question list is full of new question/answer pairs. 
>   In general, the documentation is now thrice larger 
>   than in previous release, and it is now in .chm format
>   (68 separate HTML files become too inpracticable; if
>   someone is really interested in HTML originals, I can
>   upload them separately).
> - The header file all.h is renamed to tigcclib.h to be
>   more consistent. The old name will still be accepted,
>   due to compatibility reasons.
> - It is not necessary any more to include nostub.h
>   header file explicitely to produce a "nostub" program:
>   the library will do this automatically if you use any
>   other file from the library, except if you define the
>   global preprocessor symbol USE_KERNEL, or if you 
>   explicitely include doors.h header file at the 
>   begining of the program.
> - A new directive OPTIMIZE_ROM_CALLS is introduced,
>   which optimizes ROM calls in "nostub" mode, which
>   usually leads to shorter and faster programs (but not
>   always).
> - Grayscale support on HW2 calculators is improved to
>   be about 50% faster and more flickerless. A new 
>   function GrayAdjust is implemented, which allows
>   fine tuning of grayscale quality, so it allows to
>   reduce flickering as many as possible. Please, 
>   recompile your existing grayscale programs if you 
>   want to get advantage of introduced improvements.
> - It is not necessary any more to put USE_GRAY_PATCH
>   in grayscale programs; the library will now conclude
>   automatically when the grayscale support is 
>   necessary, and it will act accordingly.
> - Bugfix: trying to enable grayscale now will not
>   cause the crash if the grayscale was already enabled.
> - A new function IsGrayMode and a new enumeration 
>   GrayPlanes are added in gray.h header file.
> - Bugfix: A fatal bug into functions fwrite and fread
>   which makes them unusuable is fixed. Also, a small
>   bug in fseek (a wrong returned value) is fixed too.
> - Bugfix: Function fopen is now much more robust if
>   something is going wrong (for example, not enough
>   memory).
> - A new function enter_ghost_space is introduced, for
>   bypassing some protections introduced in AMS 2.04 
>   and AMS 2.05
> - A new header file intr.h is introduced, which
>   contains functions, language extensions, and data
>   types for easy making of interrupt handlers, and 
>   for general manipulations with interrupts.
> - Very useful enumeration CommonKeys is introduced
>   in kbd.h header file. It contains keycodes of some
>   commonly used keys.
> - Bugfix: Function _rowread now works reliable on
>   HW2 calculators (they needs more time for 
>   recovering the keyboard controlor).
> - The documentation now contains the keyboard matrix
>   for usage of _rowread function.
> - Functions OSVRegisterTimer and OSVFreeTimer are
>   rewriten to works independently of the TIOS, 
>   because they are removed from TIOS in AMS 2.04 and
>   AMS 2.05. Now, they works on any AMS version (in 
>   other words: no more "Resident ROM routine not 
>   available" message). Please, recompile your program
>   if you used these function, to make it compatible
>   witn AMS 2.04/5.
> - A new function alloca is added into alloc.h and
>   stdlib.h header files.
> - Bugfix: Function assert will not cause a crash
>   anymore when used together with SAVE_SCREEN 
>   directive.
> - Bugfix: Function assert now works properly if used
>   inside if...else constructions.
> - Bugfix: Functions assert and ldiv will not trash
>   line numbers anymore.
> - Bugfix: Functions GetFloatArg, ArgCount and
>   RemainingArgCount now works correctly in "Doors"
>   mode.
> - Bugfix: Small corrections are made in functions 
>   poke, poke_w and poke_l, to prevent some unnecessary
>   warnings.
> - Bugfix: Constants CHAR_MIN and CHAR_MAX in limits.h
>   header file are now sensitive to the fact that the
>   compiler may be forced to treat chars a unsigned.
> - Bugfix: Although I said that impossibility of making
>   multi-module programs in "Doors" mode is solved in 
>   release 2.1, I forgot to do this. This is now really
>   solved, however.
> - The library is now programmed on such way that the
>   compiler will emit a warning if you try to return a
>   value using the return keyword from the _main 
>   function, because you in fact can not do this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Zeljko Juric
> 

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Wesley Moore
RMIT - BEng/BApp.Sc. 2nd Year

wmoore@cs.rmit.edu.au
http://wmoore.tsx.org/
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