Re: [cc65] Inserting Assembly Routines

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From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2002-11-26 14:24:11


On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:55:51PM +0100, Piotr Fusik wrote:
> xasm (http://xasm.atari.org) is good. [*]
>
> [*] I'm the author. :-)

Votes from assembler authors are always so predictable:-)

> Is the bank-switching problem already solved in CC65 ?
 
What do you mean with that? I didn't realize that cc65 had a bank switching
problem:-)

> 8-bit Ataris now
> have 1 MB RAM or 1 MB cartridges, but this memory is available through 16k
> window. As long as CC65 uses 16-bit pointers, it has limited scalability.

There is currently no way to use larger pointers. Adding 24 bit pointers for
example would need a lot of support code in the compiler, and a whole new
library with support for these pointers.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz_at_musoftware.de
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