Hi Manuel
Thanks for the report and diagnosis. Sorry that my additions to VCS.H (or
at least, my rewrite using a segmented methodology) caused you problems. I
believe VCS.H is better this way - and some of us just have to be guinea
pigs. I don't actually have any non-segmented code, so I took your word for
it, and added a dummy SEG at the end of the file.
New official versions are available at www.atari2600.org/dasm
Cheers
A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manuel Polik" <cybergoth@xxxxxxxx>
To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 7:59 AM
Subject: [stella] struggling with vcs.h...
> Hi there!
>
> After this almost turned me into a nervous wreck, I
> thought it's better to save others the trouble and tell
> you about my discoveries.
>
> Well, it started harmless. I just wanted to use Glenns
> asymetric PF template once more for some experiments
> with PF graphics, when I found, that I was not able to
> properly compile it anymore by any means.
>
> First I suspected the new DASM, but quickly found that
> the old one produced the same result, a zero length
> file.
>
> So, I tried this and that, analyzing all DASM output,
> checking all symbols *manually*, trying this, trying
> that.
>
> Well, finally after almost an hour, I found what causes
> the troubles: ->Segments<-
>
> Well, so the new vcs.h starts defining segments.
>
> Once you start using segments, it seems like it is a
> must to use segments for everything - and most of the
> old sources simply don't do that, because they aren't
> segmented at all.
>
> Well, I'm not sure wether the segments are required in
> VCS.H or not or wether DASM should probably handle this,
> but I found an easy fix:
>
> Just adding an additional segment like
> SEG Bank0
> at the very end of VCS.h, seems to do the trick.
>
> Then according to my experiments, both unsegmented and
> segmented sources seem to compile fine.
>
> I'm not sure, wether this is the ultimate solution
> though. Maybe Andrew can further investigate...
>
> Greetings,
> Manuel
>
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