Implemented "is relative" flag. This only affects source code
generation, replacing ".arstart <addr>" with ".arstart *+<value>".
Only output by 64tass and ACME generators.
Added a bold-text summary to radio buttons in address region edit
dialog. This makes it much easier to see what you're doing. Added
a warning to the label edit dialog when a label is being placed in
a non-addressable region.
Modified double-click behavior for .arstart/.arend to jump to the
other end when the opcode is clicked on. This matches the behavior
of instructions with address operands.
Reordered Actions menu, putting "edit operand" at the top.
Fixed AddressMap entry collision testing.
Fixed PRG issue with multiple address regions at offset +000002.
Added regression tests. Most of the complicated stuff with regions
is tested by unit tests inside AddressMap, but we still need to
exercise nested region code generation.
If a DCI string ended with a string delimiter or non-ASCII character
(e.g. a PETSCII char with no ASCII equivalent), the code generator
output the last byte as a hex value. This caused an error because it
was outputting the raw hex value, with the high bit already set, which
the assembler did not expect.
This change corrects the behavior for code generation and on-screen
display, and adds a few samples to the regression test suite.
(see issue #102)
On the 65816, if you say "JSR foo" from bank $12, but "foo" is an
address in bank 0, most assemblers will conclude that you're forming
a 16-bit argument with a 16-bit address and assemble happily. 64tass
halts with an error. Up until v1.55 or so, you could fake it out
by supplying a large offset.
This no longer works. The preferred way to say "no really I mean to
do this" is to append ",k" to the operand. We now do that as needed.
I didn't want to define a new ExpressionMode for 64tass just to
support an operand modifier that should probably never actually get
generated (you can't call across banks with JSR!), so this is
implemented with a quirk and an op flag.
64tass v1.56.2625 is now the default.
(issue #104)
The DCI string format uses character values where the high bit of the
last byte differs from the rest of the string. Usually all the high
bits are clear except on the last byte, but SourceGen generally allows
either polarity.
This gets a little uncertain with single-character strings, because
SourceGen can't auto-detect DCI very effectively. A series of bytes
with the high bit set could be a single high-ASCII string or a series
of single-byte DCI strings.
The motivation for allowing them is C64 PETSCII. While ASCII allows
"high ASCII" as an escape hatch, PETSCII doesn't have that option, so
there's no way to mark the data as a character or a string. We still
want to do a bit of screening, but if the user specifies a non-ASCII
character set and the selected bytes have their high bits set, we
want to just treat the whole set as 1-byte DCI.
Some minor adjustments were needed for a couple of validity checks
that expected longer strings.
This adds some short DCI strings in different character sets to the
char-encoding regression tests.
(for issue #102)
64tass wants to place its output into a 64KB region of memory,
starting at the address "*" is set to, and continuing without
wrapping around the end of the bank. Some files aren't meant to be
handled that way, so we need to generate the output differently.
If the file's output fits nicely, it's considered "loadable", and
is generated in the usual way. If it doesn't, it's treated as
"streamable", and the initial "* = addr" directive is omitted
(leaving "*" at zero), and we go straight to ".logical" directives.
65816 code with an initial address outside bank 0 is treated as
"streamable" whether or not the contents fit nicely in the designated
64K area. This caused a minor change to a few of the 65816 tests.
A new test, 20240-large-overlay, exercises "streamable" by creating
a file with eight overlapping 8KB segments that load at $8000.
While the file as a whole fits in 64KB, it wouldn't if loaded at
the desired start address.
Also, updated the regression test harness to report assembler
failure independently of overall test failure. This makes it easier
to confirm that (say) ACME v0.96.4 still works with the code we
generate, even though it doesn't match the expected output (which
was generated for v0.97).
(problem was raised in issue #98)
The initial implementation was testing the byte value rather than
the converted value, so backslashes were getting through in high
ASCII strings. PETSCII and C64 screen codes don't really have a
backslash so it's not really an issue there.
The new implementation handles high ASCII correctly. The various
201n0-char-encoding-x regression tests have been updated to verify
this.
Added a compiled C implementation of strlen(). The most interesting
part about this is that it references a 16-bit value via direct-page
address $ff, which means you'd want a local variable with
address=$ff and width=2. The current UI prevents this.
The test for max allowed value was assuming 16-bit addresses.
We had no tests for 24-bit values, so this adds a 65816-specific
version of 20170-external-symbols.
Generate a 6502 test from the 65816 version by substituting the
16-bit instructions with 8-bit no-ops. There's a lot of project
edits and weird stuff in the test, so this was much easier than
starting over.
The 65816 variant is largely unchanged, though it could now be
stripped down to the stack-offset instructions.
Split into 6502/65816 portions. The 6502 version is the original
with a few in-place substitutions (e.g. JMP for BRL). The 65816
version is only needed to exercise special handling of PEA/PER.
We have a single character-encoding test that is cloned 3x so we can
exercise the different values for the project's default character
set. It was a 65816 test because it tested 16-bit immediate char
operands, but that's a very small part of it.
The 65816-specific portion is now 20122-char-encoding. The rest is
now 201{2,3,4}0-char-encoding-X.
Tests 10022-embedded-instructions and 10032-flags-and-branches were
a mix of 6502 and 65816 code. The 6502 code has been separated into
its own file, so that the tests can be run on 8-bit-only assemblers.
The 10042-data-recognition test has no 65816-specific content, so it
should be named 10040-data-recognition.
Also, remove header comment from 20102-label-dp.
C64 PRG files are pretty common. Their salient feature is that they
start with a 16-bit value that is used as the load address. The
value is commonly generated by the assembler itself, rather than
explicitly added to the source file.
Not all assemblers know what a PRG file is, and some of them handle
it in ways that are difficult to guarantee in SourceGen. ACME adds
the 16-bit header when the output file name ends in ".prg", cc65
uses a modified config file, 64tass uses a different command-line
option, and Merlin 32 has no idea what they are.
This change adds PRG file detection and handling to the 64tass code
generator. Doing so required making a few changes to the gen/asm
interfaces, because we now need to have the generator pass additional
flags to the assembler, and sometimes we need code generation to
start somewhere other than offset zero. Overall the changes were
pretty minor.
The 20042-address-changes test needed a 6502-only variant. A new test
(20040-address-changes) has been added and given a PRG header. As
part of this change the 65816 variant was changed to use addresses
in bank 2, which uncovered a code generation bug that this change
also fixes.
The 64tass --long-address flag doesn't appear to be necessary for
files <= 65536 bytes long, so we no longer emit it for those.
(issue #90)
Created the "all ops" tests for W65C02. Filled in enough of the
necessary infrastructure to be able to create the project and
disassemble the file, though we're not yet handling the instructions
correctly.
We weren't altering the status flags after a BRK because of the
assumption that a BRK was a crash. For an inline BRK, such as a SOS
call, execution continues. We need to mark NVZC indeterminate or
we may incorrectly handle conditional branches that follow.
The BRK instruction now uses the same flag updater as JSR, since it's
effectively a subroutine call to unknown code. If execution doesn't
continue across the BRK then the flags don't matter.
Updated 20182-extension-scripts to exercise this.
First, make the per-segment comments and notes optional.
Second, add an "offset segment by $0100" feature that tries to shift
each segment forward 256 bytes. Doing so avoids potential ambiguity
with direct page locations.
The 20212-reloc-data test no longer has the per-segment comments.
The "smart" PLP handler tries to recover the flags from an earlier
PHP. The non-smart version just marks all the flags as indeterminate.
This doesn't work well on the 65816 in native mode, because having
the M/X flags in an indeterminate state is rarely what you want.
Code rarely uses PLP to reset the flags to a specific state, preferring
explicit SEP/REP. The analyzer is more likely to get the correct
answer by simply leaving the flags in their prior state.
A test case has been added to 20052-branches-and-banks, which now has
"smart PLP" disabled.
When we have relocation data available, the code currently skips the
process of matching an address with a label for a PEA instruction when
the instruction in question doesn't have reloc data. This does a
great job of separating code that pushes parts of addresses from code
that pushes constants.
This change expands the behavior to exclude instructions with 16-bit
address operands that use the Data Bank Register, e.g. "LDA abs"
and "LDA abs,X". This is particularly useful for code that accesses
structured data using the operand as the structure offset, e.g.
"LDX addr" / "LDA $0000,X"
The 20212-reloc-data test has been updated to check the behavior.
Add 20222-data-bank to regression test suite. This exercises handling
of 16-bit operands with inter- and intra-bank references, and tests the
smartness in "smart PLB".
Also, update a couple of older tests that broke because the DBR is no
longer always the same as the PBR. This just required adding "B=K"
in a few places to restore the original output.
If code accesses the high/low parts of a 32-bit address value with
no label, it auto-generates labels for addr+2 and addr. The reloc
handler was replacing the unformatted bytes with a single multi-byte
format, hiding the label at addr+2.
The easy fix is to have the reloc data handler skip the entry. This
is less useful than other approaches, but much simpler.
Added a test to 20212-reloc-data.
On the 65816, 16-bit data access instructions (e.g. LDA abs) are
expanded to 24 bits by merging in the Data Bank Register (B). The
value of the register is difficult to determine via static analysis,
so we need a way to annotate the disassembly with the correct value.
Without this, the mapping of address to file offset will sometimes
be incorrect.
This change adds the basic data structures and "fixup" function, a
functional but incomplete editor, and source for a new test case.
This test exercises the relocation data feature. The test file is
generated from a multi-segment OMF file that was hex-edited to have
specific attributes (see 20212-reloc-data-lnk.S for instructions).
The test also serves as a way to exercise the OMF converter.
Also, implement the Bank Relative flag.
Two basic problems:
(1) cc65, being a one-pass assembler, can't tell if a forward-referenced
label is 16-bit or 24-bit. If the operand is potentially ambiguous,
such as "LDA label", we need to add an operand width disambiguator.
(The existing tests managed to only do backward references.)
(2) 64tass wants the labels on JMP/JSR absolute operands to have 24-bit
values that match the current program bank. This is the opposite of
cc65, which requires 16-bit values. We need to distinguish PBR vs.
DBR instructions (i.e. "LDA abs" vs. "JMP abs") and handle them
differently when formatting for "Common".
Merlin32 doesn't care, and ACME doesn't work at all, so neither of
those needed updating.
The 20052-branches-and-banks test was expanded to cover the problematic
cases.
My original goal was to add a sign-extended decimal format, but that
turned out to be awkward. It works for data items and instructions
with immediate operands (e.g. "LDA #-1"), but is either wrong or
useless for address operands, since most assemblers treat integers
as 32-bit values. (LDA -1 is not LDA $FFFF, it's LDA $FFFFFFFF,
which is not useful unless your asm is doing an implicit mod.)
There's also a bit of variability in how assemblers treat negative
values, so I'm shelving the idea for now. I'm keeping the updated
tests, which are now split into 6502 / 65816 parts.
Also, updated the formatter to output all decimal values as unsigned.
Most assemblers were fine with negative values, but 64tass .dword
insists on positive. Rather than make the opcode conditional on the
value's range, we now just always output unsigned decimal, which
all current assemblers accept.
Add a 6502-only version of the 20032-labels-and-symbols test. The
65816 version could get away with just the 65816-specific stuff, but
there's no real need to modify it. (The next time I update it I may
remove the duplicate label since that requires hand-editing.)
The regression tests were written with the assumption that all cross
assemblers would support 6502, 65C02, and 65816 code. There are a
few that support 65816 partially (e.g. ACME) or not at all. To best
support these, we need to split some of the tests into pieces, so
that important 6502 tests aren't skipped simply because parts of the
test also exercise 65816 code.
The first step is to change the regression test naming scheme. The
old system used 1xxx for tests without project files, and 2xxx for
tests with project files. The new system uses 1xxxN / 2xxxN, where
N indicates the CPU type: 0 for 6502, 1 for 65C02, and 2 for 65816.
For the 1xxxN tests the new value determines which CPU is used,
which allows us to move the "allops" 6502/65C02 tests into the
no-project category. For 2xxxN it just allows the 6502 and 65816
versions to have the same base name and number.
This change updates the first batch of tests. It involves minor
changes to the test harness and a whole bunch of renaming.
JSR/JSL calls with inline data have the option of reporting that
they don't continue, which causes the code analyzer to treat them
as JMPs instead. There was a bug that was causing the no-continue
flag to be lost in certain circumstances.
The code now explicitly records the plugin's response in an Anattrib
flag. Test 2022-extension-scripts has been updated with a test case
that exercises this situation.
The code was making an unwarranted assumption about how the flags
were being set. For example, ORA #$00 can't know if the previous
contents of the accumulator were nonzero, only that the instruction
hasn't made them nonzero, but instead of marking the Z-flag
"indeterminate" it was leaving the flag in its previous state. This
produces incorrect results if the previous instruction didn't set
its flags from the accumulator contents, e.g. it was an LDX.
Test 1003-flags-and-branches has been updated to test these states.
These were being overlooked because they didn't actually cause
anything to happen (a no-op .ORG sets the address to what it would
already have been). The assembly source generator works in a way
that causes them to be skipped, so everybody was happy.
This seemed like the sort of thing that was likely to cause problems
down the road, however, so we now split regions correctly when a
no-op .ORG is encountered. This affects the uncategorized data
analyzer and selection grouping.
This changed the behavior of the 2004-numeric-types test, which was
visibly weird in the UI but generated correct output.
Added the 2024-ui-edge-cases test to provide a place to exercise
edge cases when testing the UI by hand. It has some value for the
automated regression test, so it's included there.
Also, changed the AddressMapEntry objects to be immutable. This
is handy when passing lists of them around.
We want to be able to declare a symbol for a struct or buffer that
spans the entire width, and then declare more-specific items within
it that take precedence. This worked for everything but the very
first byte, because on an exact match we were resolving the conflict
alphabetically.
Now, if one is wider than the other, we use the narrower definition.
Updated 2021-external-symbols with some additional test cases.
The uncategorized data scanner isn't supposed to create strings or
".fill" directives that straddle labels, long comments, notes,
visualizations, or ORG directives. The test for crossing an ORG
directive is incomplete, and doesn't correctly handle no-op ORGs
(where the new address is the same as the old address).
The code generator doesn't output ORGs that are hidden inside other
things, so we're not generating bad code, but it looks funny on
screen and may cause problems later on. The 2004-numeric-types test
has the basic .align/.fill/.bulk directive tests, and now has an
extended set of tests for uncategorized data region splitting.
Correct handling of local variables. We now correctly uniquify them
with regard to non-unique labels. Because local vars can effectively
have global scope we mostly want to treat them as global, but they're
uniquified relative to other globals very late in the process, so we
can't just throw them in the symbol table and be done. Fortunately
local variables exist in a separate namespace, so we just need to
uniquify the variables relative to the post-localization symbol table.
In other words, we take the symbol table, apply the label map, and
rename any variable that clashes.
This also fixes an older problem where we weren't masking the
leading '_' on variable labels when generating 64tass output.
The code list now makes non-unique labels obvious, but you can't tell
the difference between unique global and unique local. What's more,
the default type value in Edit Label is now adjusted to Global for
unique locals that were auto-generated. To make it a bit easier to
figure out what's what, the Info panel now has a "label type" line
that reports the type.
The 2023-non-unique-labels test had some additional tests added to
exercise conflicts with local variables. The 2019-local-variables
test output changed slightly because the de-duplicated variable
naming convention was simplified.
Implemented assembly source generation of non-unique local labels.
The new 2023-non-unique-labels test exercises various edge cases
(though we're still missing local variable interaction).
The format of uniquified labels changed slightly, so the expected
output of 2012-label-localizer needed to be updated.
This changes the "no opcode mnemonics" and "mask leading underscores"
functions into integrated parts of the label localization process.
Update the symbol lookup in EditInstructionOperand, EditDataOperand,
and GotoBox to correctly deal with non-unique labels.
This is a little awkward because we're doing lookups by name on
a non-unique symbol, and must resolve the ambiguity. In the case of
an instruction operand that refers to an address this is pretty
straightforward. For partial bytes (LDA #>:foo) or data directives
(.DD1 :foo) we have to take a guess. We can probably make a more
informed guess than we currently are, e.g. the LDA case could find
the label that minimizes the adjustment, but I don't want to sink a
lot of time into this until I'm sure it'll be useful.
Data operands with multiple regions are something of a challenge,
but I'm not sure specifying a single symbol for multiple locations
is important.
The "goto" box just finds the match that's closest to the selection.
Unlike "find", it always grabs the closest, not the next one forward.
(Not sure if this is useful or confusing.)
Added serialization of non-unique labels to project files.
The address labels are stored without the non-unique tag, because we
can get that from the file offset. (If we stored it, we'd need to
extract the value and verify that it matches the offset.) Operand
weak references are symbolic, and so do include the tag string.
We weren't validating symbol labels before. Now we are.
This also adds a "NonU" filter to the Symbols window so the labels
can be shown or hidden as desired.
Also, added source for a first pass at a regression test.
The code that found a nearby data target for an instruction operand
was searching backward but not forward. We now take one step
forward, so that "LDA TABLE-1,Y" fills in automatically.
This altered 2008-address-changes, which had just this situation.
It didn't alter 2010-target-adjustment, but the existing tests were
insufficient and have been improved.
In the assembler output, add a blank line between the constants
and addresses in the long list of equates.
The earlier change that corrected the BIT instruction caused test
2009-branches-and-banks to fail, because it was relying on the idea
that BIT made the carry flag indeterminate. Changing a BCC to a
BVS restored the desired behavior.
This began with a change to support "BRK <operand>" in cc65. The
assembler only supports this for 65816 projects, so we detect that
and enable it when available.
While fiddling with some test code an assertion fired. This
revealed a minor issue in the code analyzer: when overwriting inline
data with instructions, we weren't resetting the format descriptor.
The code that exercises it, which requires two-byte BRKs and an
inline BRK handler in an extension script, has been added to test
2022-extension-scripts.
The new regression test revealed a flaw in the 64tass code
generator's character encoding scanner that caused it to hang.
Fixed.
Sometimes there's a bunch of junk in the binary that isn't used for
anything. Often it's there to make things line up at the start of
a page boundary.
This adds a ".junk" directive that tells the disassembler that it
can safely disregard the contents of a region. If the region ends
on a power-of-two boundary, an alignment value can be specified.
The assembly source generators will output an alignment directive
when possible, a .fill directive when appropriate, and a .dense
directive when all else fails. Because we're required to regenerate
the original data file, it's not always possible to avoid generating
a hex dump.
Also exercise various formatting options.
Also, fix a bug where the code that applies project/platform symbols
to numeric references was ignoring inline data items.
Extension scripts (a/k/a "plugins") can now apply any data format
supported by FormatDescriptor to inline data. In particular, it can
now handle variable-length inline strings. The code analyzer
verifies the string structure (e.g. null-terminated strings have
exactly one null byte, at the very end).
Added PluginException to carry an exception back to the plugin code,
for occasions when they're doing something so wrong that we just
want to smack them.
Added test 2022-extension-scripts to exercise the feature.
