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Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity

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On Wednesday, 6 April 2016 11:28:02 UTC-7, Michael Finger  wrote:
> I have a question related to PLASMA and, by extension, the ACME assembler. 
> 
> The issue I'm running into is that I have some inline assembly in a function in PLASMA that is using labels. 
> 
> I trying to put in the No-Slot Clock time routines I borrowed from the ADTPro source.  I converted it to work with ACME, but it seems to be computing absolute label offsets based on the passed in program counter and not by location within the assembly code. 
> 
> Here is an example (PLASMA): 
> asm _gettime 
> L0260   lda #$00 
>         sta L02DE 
>         lda #$03 
> L0267   ora #$C0 
>         sta L031F 
> L026C   sta L0322 
>         sta L0331 
>         sta L033F 
>         lda #$03 
>         sta L02DF 
>         one L0292 
> ... 
> L02DE   brk 
> L02DF   brk 
> L02E0   brk 
> 
> When I compile it and load it up in PLASMA, I have the PLASMA code print out the address of _gettime, which spits out $4047 as the address of _gettime 
> 
> Looking at the in memory code I see this: 
> 4047-   A9 00           LDA   #$00 
> 4049-   8D B2 10        STA   $10B2 
> 404C-   A9 03           LDA   #$03 
> 4067-   09 C0           ORA   #$C0 
> 4069-   8D F3 10        STA   $10F3 
> 406C-   8D F6 10        STA   $10F6 
> 406F-   8D 05 11        STA   $1105 
> 4072-   8D 13 11        STA   $1113 
> 4075-   A9 03           LDA   #$03 
> 4077-   8D B3 10        STA   $10B3 
> 407A-   D0 16           BNE   $4079 
> 
> 
> The STA on 4049 should be $40C5 but it's $10B2, same with the other absolute address labels. 407A is correct, but that is a relative address. 
> 
> It looks like offset that are too large for a relative offset are based on the current value of the PC. 
> 
> I can get the offsets to be right if I run ACME with --setpc 16401 but then the execution crashes even before outputting the address value.  Which I'd expect since I'm sure It messes up the entry point. 
> 
> The loaded code runs correct (well, doesn't crash) if I do it from the monitor after it crashes: 
> 
> *4047g 
> * 
> 
> Has anyone run into this?  Am I doing something wrong? 
> 
> FWIW, I did originally load code found in here for NSC time byte for byte (via memcpy) to $260 and it runs fine, except PLASMA uses the zero page for things so we end up walking on each other.   
> 
> Thanks for any help!

Hi Michael-

So you discovered the issue with embedded assembly in PLASMA: the module is built as a RELative object module (that funny relocatable format from the EDASM assembler). What happens is the PLASMA compiler doesn't parse the assembly, so it isn't able to record the fixups for any absolute address labels. You have a few options, but the easiest would be to place your data in a fixed location ($0300 would be a good choice). Another would be to rewrite the code all in PLASMA. Hope that gives you some options.

Dave...

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PLASMA/Acme oddity mike.finger@gmail.com - 2016-04-06 11:28 -0700
  Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 08:42 -0700
    Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 08:51 -0700
      Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity Michael Finger <mike.finger@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 09:29 -0700
        Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 11:17 -0700
          Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity Michael Finger <mike.finger@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 11:13 -0700
            Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity Michael Finger <mike.finger@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 11:14 -0700
            Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 13:19 -0700
              Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity Michael Finger <mike.finger@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 21:45 -0700
                Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 08:56 -0700
                Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 09:14 -0700
                Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity Michael Finger <mike.finger@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 11:52 -0700
                Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2016-04-09 20:09 +0000
                Re: PLASMA/Acme oddity Michael Finger <mike.finger@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 08:42 -0700

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