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

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A83] Re: Announcinga new TI-83 Development Suite
From: "Aaron St.John" <aaronstj@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:10:20 -0800
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org

>Erm sorry, but the GBDK (GameBoy Development Kit) never actually worked
>with SDCC. The last beta releases (years ago) did include the SDCC but it
>was *kinda* buggy.

I never claimed that GBDK worked with SDCC (which it did in several of the 
later versions, but that's another arguement), my claim was that GBDK can a 
huge library written in ASM for the C programmer to rely on, which is true.

>The 'problem' is that (NB, I asked it friendly) they don't want to make the
>compiler separate between machines (they do with processor type though). So
>you can't specify that you compile for the Z88 or for the Ti83.

This is not a problem.  Use the compiler command-line switches you can have 
it org the code at progstart, and the RAM at SaveScreen or whereever.  Then 
a post-link utility can massage the outputted file into a .83p (kind of like 
Devpac83).

>You'll need
>to copy the right (header) files into the right directory to make things
>work for different machines. Although it isn't impossible, it looks like a
>PITA to me.

This is trivial.  You just need to write a new library, compile it to a 
library called z80.lib, and drop it and the new .h files into the right 
directory.  It would make things a bit complex if you used sdcc to compile 
other z80 stuff, but you could create a new directory for the ti-83 lib, and 
create a simple .bat file to rename the directories as needed.

Stupid like a fox!
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