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codeGenIntermediate/src/prog8/codegen/intermediate/IRCodeGen.kt

@@ -1019,7 +1019,6 @@ class IRCodeGen(
         }
     }
 
-    // TODO use this everywhere a PtJump is used
     private fun branchInstr(goto: PtJump, branchOpcode: Opcode) = if (goto.address != null)
         IRInstruction(branchOpcode, address = goto.address?.toInt())
     else if (goto.generatedLabel != null)

compiler/src/prog8/compiler/astprocessing/AstChecker.kt

@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ internal class AstChecker(private val program: Program,
         // CONST can only occur on simple types (byte, word, float)
         if(decl.type== VarDeclType.CONST) {
             if (decl.datatype !in NumericDatatypes)
-                err("const modifier can only be used on numeric types (byte, word, float)")
+                err("const can only be used on numeric types (byte, word, float)")
         }
 
         // FLOATS enabled?

compiler/test/TestAstChecks.kt

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class TestAstChecks: FunSpec({
         compileText(C64Target(), true, text, writeAssembly = true, errors=errors)
         errors.errors.size shouldBe 1
         errors.warnings.size shouldBe 0
-        errors.errors[0] shouldContain "const modifier can only be used"
+        errors.errors[0] shouldContain "const can only be used"
     }
 
     test("array indexing is not allowed on a memory mapped variable") {

docs/source/todo.rst

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 TODO
 ====
 
-- IR: use branchInstr() everywhere a PtGoto is used in IRCodeGen
+- fix discord string bug for if key!="." : "ERROR undefined symbol: prog8_interned_strings.string_3"
+
 - [on branch: shortcircuit] investigate McCarthy evaluation again? this may also reduce code size perhaps for things like if a>4 or a<2 ....
 
 ...

examples/test.p8

@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 
 main {
     sub start() {
-        ubyte xx=12
-
-        if xx==12
-            txt.print("gottem")
+        str name="irmen"
+        if name=="." {
+            cx16.r0++
+        }
         txt.nl()
     }
 }