RetroBox high-level language compiler

[paul_nicholls]

For the Sys calls, there's one I forgot to mention

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   move.l mystr,a0 ; Address to a zero terminated sequence of ascii values
   move.l 0,d0   ; DebugPrint command
   sys 0 ; Debug sys call


Which might be useful to add support for, as it lets you print a custom string.

For the ROR/ROL, best is to just make do without them for now - just reversing the order probably won't work...

Thanks
I can at least use ROL anyway

BTW, the language now does bit-wise And, Or, Xor as well as Mod too...
cheers,
Paul

[paul_nicholls]

Hi Mattias, I have been using an added DebugPrint command in my language that can send the result of an expression to the debug viewer...

I have one question, does the debug viewer guarantee to receive the values sent in the same order?

The values being sent from my program (I'm testing for-loop code) seems to be out of sequence, but I'm not sure if it is debug viewer (tcp link?) that is the issue, or my compiler...

I think this is another reason for a sys command perhaps that will show a value in a dialog box instead of just sending it to the debug viewer - then I can be sure I am looking at values in the correct sequence when testing

Just my $0.02 LOL

cheers,
Paul

[paul_nicholls]

I have another question Mattias - what program do you use to build RetroBox?

I have tried using Code:Blocks and am getting errors (see below):

..\PixieLib\Source\Common\StandardLibrary.h|87|error: `size_t' has not been declared|

at this line:

void QSort(void* base, size_t num, size_t width, int (__cdecl* compare )(const void*, const void*) );

How do I fix the above error?

cheers,
Paul

[Mattias Gustavsson]

Visual Studio of course Not only is it free, it is by far the best dev tool I've ever seen

You should be OK to just remove the QSort stuff from StandardLibrary - or even just change size_t to int

[paul_nicholls]

HI Mattias, sorry I haven't had a chance to work on my RetroBox stuff for a bit (too busy with my PGDAnnual 2009 - Arcadia competition entry (www.pgdannual.com) + real life lately (and having 3 days off work due to illness...)

I did have one question - when is the next version of RetroBox coming out?

I'm looking forward to the stack operations (parameter passing), and the ROR bug fix

cheers,
Paul

[paul_nicholls]

Hi all,
just thought I'd say Happy New Year!

cheers,
Paul