From: Groepaz (groepaz_at_gmx.net)
Date: 2000-11-30 13:36:50
> I'm of course the last one to tell other people how to spent their time. I
> know, that fiddling with a compiler is fun for itself (I'm working on cc65 for
> fun myself:-). However, it is my opinion that it would be much better for the
> community if people would work together more closely and use/improve what is
> there instead of recreating existing things over and over. There are not many
> 6502 developers left, and splitting resources means that a lot less will get
> accomplished.
yeah, fully agree.... i used to do the same thing some years ago (rewriting a
whole lot of tools that already existed) but i stopped that for the same reason:
waste of (valuable) resources (mostly time here).
btw... i recently started using ca65 somewhat more intensive, and i noticed
that the missing 'repeat' type of thing really _IS_ a horrible thing ;/
instead of writing
.for count=0,count-100,count=count+1
.byte $00
.next
in tasm6502 (the one from taboo), in ca65 its
.macro filler count,to,step
.proc
.byte $00
.endproc
.if ((count+step)>=to)
.exitmacro
.endif
filler (count+step),to,step
.endmacro
filler 0,100,1
notice this is a VERY simple example of the usuage of that feature and
imagine how horrible that looks like with a more complicated code thing,
maybe using nexted loops etc ;/
it's true, all that crap can be substituted by recursive macros, but its
still an ugly solution
whatever, besides that..... ca65/ld65 ROX ;=)
regards
gpz
ps: while i am porting some code written in tasm, i am writing down all
the traps that came across my way.... i could supply that document
if you want to include that with your docs (a whole lot of ppl are
used to tasm so it might make sence)
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