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MSA2 and TP7 overlays (Announce)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 03.12.2019, 21:34

> Anyways, actually I only wanted to mention this (N.B. the forum is getting
> confused with italics, so I renamed the var byte from "i" to "n"):

Nice find! This is caused by using italics for the word "exact" later. So, if you change "n" to "b" and use bold on "exact", that {b} will also disappear like the {i} before.

You can't even prevent it by enclosing the Pascal statement in {code}{/code}. I will report this behaviour to Heiko.

> > CALLER.PAS
> > procedure puts
> > for n:=1 to ord(s[0]) do putc(s[n]);
>
> I did put that one function in a separate file, just to prove a point. You
> can change "ord(s[0])" into "length(s)" (at least with TP 5.5), and the
> output .EXE has the exact same CRC32. My point is that it might be
> cleaner, clearer, and more portable to not assume the length is only a byte
> at offset 0. Compile-time calculations and constant expressions are useful
> indeed. Just FYI.

(Just cited to reproduce the bug.)

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• MSA assembler released under MIT - DosWorld, 10.11.2019, 13:44 (Announce)
  • MSA assembler released under MIT - tom, 10.11.2019, 19:00
    • MSA assembler released under MIT - DosWorld, 12.11.2019, 14:42
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        • MSA assembler released under MIT - DosWorld, 15.11.2019, 16:38
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        • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - rr, 03.12.2019, 21:34
        • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - Rugxulo, 14.12.2019, 13:28
          • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - rr, 14.12.2019, 23:42
            • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - marcov, 15.12.2019, 21:07
              • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - Rugxulo, 16.12.2019, 19:15
        • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - DosWorld, 15.12.2019, 21:42
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