Re: [cc65] Calling another program: exec() ?

Hi!

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:56:09PM +0100, Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> There are several targets that need a small loader stub to be placed
> somewhere safe which is than jumped to in order to load the new
> program. However we surely don't want to introduced yet another linker
> segment for that purpose ;-) On the other hand it is likely that one
> needs absolute references into that loader stub. My solution goes like
> this, using a JSR just as a simple example for an absolute reference:

I've created myself a solution for the several extended memory drivers that
were contributed some time ago, and I have to say that I like my solution more
than yours:-) The basic code is of course the same but it differs in details.

See c64-c256k.s for a larger example.

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TARGETLOC               = $200          ; Target location for exec stub

.proc   execstub
source:
.org    ::TARGETLOC
entry:  ...
        jsr    mysub
        ...
        jmp    <new program>
.reloc
.endproc


.proc   _exec
        ldx  	#.sizeof (stub) - 1
@L1:    lda    	execstub::source,x
        sta  	execstub::entry,x
        dex
        bpl  	@L1
        ...
        jmp     execstub::entry
.endproc

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A disadvantage of this approach is that placing the code at the end of the
area doesn't work easily.

Regards


        Uz


-- 
Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de
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