Re: [cc65] 16-bit writes on 65816

From: Ullrich von Bassewitz <uz1musoftware.de>
Date: 2009-01-07 00:37:22
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:34:05PM -0500, Scott Goldman wrote:
> Ah, I was under the impression that the 65816 was mostly backwards
> compatible (it can execute the same opcodes) but there must be some
> trickery there. I try to call my C function from asm but the runtime for
> comparing 16-bit values (tosicmp) seems to have issues as my for loop
> short circuits and never runs the code in the inner body:

This is probably a stack and/or zeropage issue. The generated code and the C
runtime expects some zeropage locations to be available and others to be set.
For example, there's a software stack implemented by a zero page pointer. If
it isn't set up correctly, things will go havoc.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de
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