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Andy McFadden 4537f24958 Rework tutorial for changes in v1.8
Biggest changes were to the address region handling in Tutorial1
and the use of StdInline.cs for the inline strings in Tutorial4.

Also, fixed the off-by-one error in Tutorial1.
2021-11-14 09:02:53 -08:00

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<h2>Inline Data</h2>
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<p>Consider the code at address $206B. It's a <code>JSR</code> followed by some
ASCII text, then a $00 byte, and then what might be code.</p>
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<p>Double-click on the <code>JSR</code> opcode
to jump to $20AB to see the function. It pulls the
call address off the stack, and uses it as a pointer. When it encounters
a zero byte, it breaks out of the loop, pushes the adjusted pointer
value back onto the stack, and returns.</p>
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<p>This is an example of "inline data", where a function uses the return
address to get a pointer to data. The return address is adjusted to
point past the inline data before returning (technically, it points at
the very last byte of the inline data, because
<code>RTS</code> jumps to address + 1).</p>
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<p>To format the data, we first need to tell SourceGen that there's data
in line with the code. Select the line at address $206E, then
shift-click the line at address $2077. Use
<samp>Actions &gt; Tag Bytes As Inline Data</samp>
(<kbd class="key">Ctrl+H</kbd><kbd class="key">Ctrl+I</kbd>).</p>
<p>Unlike code start and end tags, where you only tag the byte
where the code starts or stops, for inline data you need to tag
every byte.</p>
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<p>The data turns to single-byte values, and we now see the code
continuing at address $2078. We can format the data as a string by
using <samp>Actions &gt; Edit Operand</samp>,
setting the Character Encoding to <samp>Low or High ASCII</samp>,
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<p>That's pretty straightforward, but this could quickly become tedious if
there were a lot of these. SourceGen allows you to define scripts to
automate common formatting tasks. This is covered in the "Extension
Scripts" tutorial.</p>
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