Re: A85: Problem assembling 18K file with TASM
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Re: A85: Problem assembling 18K file with TASM
Oh, sorry, I thought he ment after being comiled!
John
Greg Hill wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, John Koch wrote:
>
> > I haven't ever wrote a game that large, but I have assembled them, I
> > don't think I got that error, I don't remember, but I do know that
> > Jezzball is only around 3000 bytes, plus 36000 wouldn't fit on teh
> > calculator! Just wondering if you made a mistake?
> >
> > John
> >
>
> The source code is *MUCH* larger than the actual compiled program. For
> example, a line like this in the source code would use 49 bytes:
> add hl,de ; add the two registers together
> But after it gets compiled, that line takes about 2-4 (I don't remember
> for sure) bytes. So the source was up to 25 times larger than the end
> result. This is because during compilation, all comments and labels are
> dropped. Only the actual instructions make it through, and they're often
> shrunk from about ten bytes to two or three.
>
> --
> Greg Hill
> greg-hill@bigfoot.com
> www.comports.com/link
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