Re: Name of a program

From	Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject	Re: Name of a program
Date	2026-04-17 10:45 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<01ece1ca5c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> (permalink)
References	<5cca837cdbbob@sick-of-spam.invalid> <5cca87776fNews04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <5cca8d05ebbob@sick-of-spam.invalid>

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On 16 Apr 2026 as I do recall,
          Bob Latham  wrote:

> In article <5cca87776fNews04@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
>    Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> > In article <5cca837cdbbob@sick-of-spam.invalid>,
> >    Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
> > > How can I get the name of program I'm running from within the
> > > program?
> 
> > I would have thought that a program would know what it is called?!
> > So not sure what you are wanting.
> 
> I want to hide the name of the source file in assemble code. I would
> like to be able to look at my code and be able to find out which
> source file it came from.

Do you mean 'embed' the name of the source file in assembly code?  I
don't think it's inherently in the assembled machine code, which doesn't
know whether it was assembled on the fly by running a parent BASIC file
or loaded from disc and executed by calling the address of the area it
was stored into, i.e. there is nothing to hide.

Or is this for the purposes of error trapping?

Probably the best way to label your machine code is simply to manually
embed a string near the top of it (like the string that is the name of a
relocatable module) with EQUS, so that you can visually inspect it - or
check for its presence at a known offset from the start of the code.

-- 
Harriet Bazley                     ==  Loyaulte me lie ==

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from

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Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-16 17:34 +0100
  Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-16 18:17 +0100
    Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-16 19:18 +0100
      Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-16 22:29 +0100
      Re: Name of a program Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 10:45 +0100
        Re: Name of a program Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-04-17 11:43 +0100
          Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-17 12:59 +0100
            Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 16:52 +0100
              Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-17 20:15 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 23:24 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-18 10:08 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-04-18 10:56 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-18 11:13 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-18 13:50 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-18 15:29 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-18 16:30 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-04-18 17:54 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-18 18:06 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-18 18:51 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-18 19:08 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-18 19:36 +0100
        Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-17 12:08 +0100
          Re: Name of a program Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 14:12 +0100
            Re: Name of a program Tank <webmaster@tankstage.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 15:09 +0100
              Re: Name of a program Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 19:35 +0100
              Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-17 20:17 +0100
                Re: Name of a program Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-04-17 23:30 +0100
      Re: Name of a program Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2026-04-18 11:39 +0100
        Re: Name of a program Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-04-18 13:55 +0100

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