[A83] Re: Announcinga new TI-83 Development Suite


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[A83] Re: Announcinga new TI-83 Development Suite



Well, you don't have to have 100% CRT compatability, you could 
simply require a special format for certain commands and then link 
in the ROM functions and call it.

corey

>>how would one modify it so that the compiler would make use of
>>romcalls? would this be a library issue?
> 
> That would indeed be a library issue.  You'd have to rewrite the 
bulk
> of the  CRT (C RunTime library) to make it at all efficient, but 
you
> could strictly  get the compiler working with (I would imagine) very
> little effort.  SDCC  also has an assembler, as well as allowing 
inline
> assembling, so you'd be  able to write the CRT it ASM for 
effieciencies
> sake.  This was how it worked  on the GB compiler, a huge library
> written in ASM.  Without sometihng like  that, your programs 
would be
> laughably slow.
> 
> Stupid like a fox!
> Look ma, I'm an artist: http://aaronstj.deviantart.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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