Re: [cc65-devel] HuC6280 zero-page addressing problem.

[John B. <jo...@te...>]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 7:19 PM, John Brandwood <jo...@te...> wrote:
>
> Hi Greg ... I can see that you've made some more changes to your
> personal branch for the new ".setdp" instruction since I last tested
> it out ... but those changes still haven't been applied to the CC65
> master branch.
>
> May I ask how things are going, and if there's anything that I can do
> to help get that new functionality adding into the main branch?

Well, a build of Greg's latest source shows that some great progress
has been made!

It looks like the automatic ".setdp $2000" that's being done for the
HuC6280 processor is working wonderfully ... at least in the normal
top-level scope.

But things are totally hosed within a "proc" scope.

So, a giant step forward, and totally usable from my POV as an
assembly-language programmer that doesn't use/need CA65's scoping
capability.

IMHO, the next step toward finally nailing this thing is probably
going to be some work on CA65's symbol-table code to make those scopes
work better (which would probably also fix issue #235 at the same
time).

What are your thoughts Greg, now that you've dug into the source code
and got the ".setdp" working?