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Added quite some info on the stuff in 'cfg' and 'obj'. Apple2enh needs to be adjusted too for sure, but check the result of the nightly build first.

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<article>
<title>Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb; specific information for cc65
<author>Ullrich von Bassewitz, <htmlurl url="mailto:uz@cc65.org" name="uz@cc65.org">
<date>2003-12-16
<author>Oliver Schmidt, <htmlurl url="mailto:ol.sc@web.de" name="ol.sc@web.de">
<date>2009-10-07
<abstract>
An overview over the Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb; runtime system as it is
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<sect>Binary format<p>
The standard binary output format generated by the linker for the
Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb; target is a machine language program with a 4 byte DOS
3.3 header containing the load address and load size. The standard load address
is &dollar;803.
The DOS 3.3 header is in its own segment named <tt/EXEHDR/. If you don't want
the header for some reason, you can change
<verb>
HEADER: start = $0000, size = $0004, file = %O;
</verb>
to
<verb>
HEADER: start = $0000, size = $0004, file = "";
</verb>
in the linker configuration to have the linker remove it.
The standard binary file format generated by the linker for the
Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb; target is a binary program with a 4 byte DOS 3.3 header
containing the load address and load length. The default load address is
&dollar;803.
<bf/AppleCommander 1.3.5/ or later (available at <url
url="http://applecommander.sourceforge.net/">) includes an option <tt/-cc65/
that allows to put binary files with the DOS 3.3 header onto disk images
containing either DOS 3.3 or ProDOS 8.
Please note that there is an <bf/Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb; ProDOS 8 system program
for loading binary programs/ available in the cc65 User Contributions section.
It adds all benefits of a ProDOS 8 system program to the standard binary
program generated by the linker for the Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb; target.
url="http://applecommander.sourceforge.net/">) includes the option <tt/-cc65/
that allows to put binary files with a DOS 3.3 header onto disk images
containing DOS 3.3 as well as ProDOS 8.
For ProDOS 8 system programs the load address is fixed to &dollar;2000 so there
is no need for a header. Therefore the linker configuration
<htmlurl url="apple2-4.html#ss4.3" name="apple2-system.cfg"> for those programs
omits the DOS 3.3 header.
<sect>Memory layout<p>
In the standard setup, cc65 generated programs use the memory from
&dollar;803 to &dollar;95FF, so 35.5KB of RAM are available. While running
<tt/main()/ the Language Card bank 2 is enabled for read access. However while
running module constructors/destructors the Language Card is disabled.
&dollar;803 to &dollar;95FF, so 35.5 KB of RAM are available.
Special locations:
<descrip>
<tag/Stack/
The C runtime stack is located at HIMEM and grows downwards, regardless of
how your linker config file is setup.
@ -82,33 +65,215 @@ Special locations:
<tag/Heap/
The C heap is located at the end of the program and grows towards the C
runtime stack.
</descrip><p>
Enabling the Language Card allows to use it as additional memory for executable
code. Actually doing so requires either to compile code with the option
<tt/--code-name HIGHCODE/ or to use <tt/#pragma codeseg ("HIGHCODE")/.
While running <tt/main()/ the Language Card bank 2 is enabled for read access.
However while running module constructors/destructors the Language Card is disabled.
The amount of memory available in the Language Card for executable code depends
on the chosen program environment. A plain vanilla ProDOS 8 doesn't actually
use the Language Card bank 2 memory from &dollar;D400 to &dollar;DFFF.
Therefore the builtin linker configuration defines these 3KB as <tt/LC/ memory
area for executable code.
Enabling the Language Card allows to use it as additional memory for cc65
generated code. However code is never automatically placed there. Rather code
needs to be explicitly placed in the Language Card either per file by compiling
with <tt/--code-name HIGHCODE/ or per function by enclosing in <tt/#pragma
codeseg (push, "HIGHCODE")/ and <tt/#pragma codeseg (pop)/. In either case the
cc65 runtime system takes care of actually moving the code into the Language
Card.
A plain vanilla DOS 3.3 doesn't make use of the Language Card at all. So you
can change
The amount of memory available in the Language Card for generated code depends
on the chosen <htmlurl url="apple2-4.html" name="linker configuration">.
<verb>
LC: start = $D400, size = $0C00, define = yes;
</verb>
to
<verb>
LC: start = $D000, size = $3000, define = yes;
</verb>
<sect>Linker configurations<p>
in the linker configuration to define the whole 12KB Language Card address
space as memory area for executable code.
The ld65 linker comes with a builtin config file for the Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb;,
which is used via <tt/-t apple2/ (and displayed via <tt/--dump-config apple2/).
The apple2 package comes with additional secondary linker config files, which
are used via <tt/-C <configfile>/.
<sect1>builtin config file<p>
Default configuration optimized for a binary program running on ProDOS 8 with
BASIC.SYSTEM. A plain vanilla ProDOS 8 doesn't actually use the Language Card
bank 2 memory from &dollar;D400 to &dollar;DFFF.
<descrip>
<tag><tt/RAM:/ Main memory area</tag>
From &dollar;803 to &dollar;95FF (35.5 KB)
<tag><tt/LC:/ Language Card memory area</tag>
From &dollar;D400 to &dollar;DFFF (3 KB)
<tag><tt/STARTADDRESS:/ Program start address</tag>
Variable (default: &dollar;803)
<tag><tt/HEADER:/ Binary file header</tag>
DOS 3.3 header (address and length)
</descrip><p>
<sect1><tt/apple2-dos33.cfg/<p>
Configuration optimized for a binary program running on DOS 3.3. A plain
vanilla DOS 3.3 doesn't make use of the Language Card at all.
<descrip>
<tag><tt/RAM:/ Main memory area</tag>
From &dollar;803 to &dollar;95FF (35.5 KB)
<tag><tt/LC:/ Language Card memory area</tag>
From &dollar;D000 to &dollar;FFFF (12 KB)
<tag><tt/STARTADDRESS:/ Program start address</tag>
Variable (default: &dollar;803)
<tag><tt/HEADER:/ Binary file header</tag>
DOS 3.3 header (address and length)
</descrip><p>
<sect1><tt/apple2-system.cfg/<p>
Configuration for a system program running on ProDOS 8.
<descrip>
<tag><tt/RAM:/ Main memory area</tag>
From &dollar;2000 to &dollar;BEFF (39.75 KB)
<tag><tt/LC:/ Language Card memory area</tag>
From &dollar;D400 to &dollar;DFFF (3 KB)
<tag><tt/STARTADDRESS:/ Program start address</tag>
Fixed (&dollar;2000)
<tag><tt/HEADER:/ Binary file header</tag>
None
</descrip><p>
<sect1><tt/apple2-loader.cfg/<p>
Configuration optimized for a binary program running on ProDOS 8 without
BASIC.SYSTEM. Intended to be used with <bf/LOADER.SYSTEM - an
Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb; ProDOS 8 loader for cc65 programs/, which is available
in the cc65 User Contributions section.
A program loaded by LOADER.SYSTEM works like a ProDOS 8 system program but
isn't tied to the start adress &dollar;2000. Thus with the default start
address &dollar;800 the main memory area is increased by 6 KB.
<descrip>
<tag><tt/RAM:/ Main memory area</tag>
From &dollar;800 to &dollar;BEFF (45.75 KB)
<tag><tt/LC:/ Language Card memory area</tag>
From &dollar;D400 to &dollar;DFFF (3 KB)
<tag><tt/STARTADDRESS:/ Program start address</tag>
Variable (default: &dollar;800)
<tag><tt/HEADER:/ Binary file header</tag>
DOS 3.3 header (address and length)
</descrip><p>
<sect1><tt/apple2-reboot.cfg/<p>
Configuration optimized for a binary program running on ProDOS 8 without
BASIC.SYSTEM. Intended to be used with <bf/LOADER.SYSTEM - an
Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb; ProDOS 8 loader for cc65 programs/ (see above) together
with the function <tt/rebootafterexit()/.
If a ProDOS 8 system program doesn't quit to the ProDOS 8 dispatcher but rather
reboots the machine after exit then a plain vanilla ProDOS 8 doesn't make use of
the Language Card bank 2 at all.
This setup makes nearly 50 KB available to a cc65 program - on a 64 KB machine!
<descrip>
<tag><tt/RAM:/ Main memory area</tag>
From &dollar;800 to &dollar;BEFF (45.75 KB)
<tag><tt/LC:/ Language Card memory area</tag>
From &dollar;D000 to &dollar;DFFF (4 KB)
<tag><tt/STARTADDRESS:/ Program start address</tag>
Variable (default: &dollar;800)
<tag><tt/HEADER:/ Binary file header</tag>
DOS 3.3 header (address and length)
</descrip><p>
<sect>ProDOS 8 system programs<p>
ProDOS 8 system programs are always loaded to the start adress &dollar;2000.
For cc65 programs this means that the 6 KB from &dollar;800 to &dollar;2000 are
by default unused. There are however several options to make use of that memory
range.
<sect1>LOADER.SYSTEM<p>
The easiest (and for really large programs in fact the only) way to have a cc65
program use the memory from &dollar;800 to &dollar;2000 is to link it as binary
(as opposed to system) program using the linker configuration
<htmlurl url="apple2-4.html#ss4.4" name="apple2-loader.cfg"> with start address
&dollar;800 and load it with <bf/LOADER.SYSTEM - an Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb;
ProDOS 8 loader for cc65 programs/. The program then works like a system program
(i.e. quits to the ProDOS dispatcher).
Using LOADER.SYSTEM is as simple as copying it to the ProDOS 8 directory of the
program to load under name &lt;program&gt;.SYSTEM as a system program. For
example the program <tt/MYPROG/ is loaded by <tt/MYPROG.SYSTEM/.
<sect1>Heap<p>
If the cc65 program can be successully linked as system program using the linker
configuration <htmlurl url="apple2-4.html#ss4.3" name="apple2-system.cfg"> but
uses the heap either explicitly or implicitly (i.e. by loading a driver) then
the memory from &dollar;800 to &dollar;2000 can be added to the heap by calling
<tt/_heapadd ((void *) 0x0800, 0x1800);/ at the beginning of <tt/main()/.
<sect1>ProDOS 8 I/O buffers<p>
ProDOS 8 requires for every open file a page-aligned 1 KB I/O buffer. By default
these buffers are allocated by the cc65 runtime system on the heap using
<tt/posix_memalign()/. While in general this is the best solution it means quite
some overhead for (especially rather small) cc65 programs which do open files
but do not make use of the heap otherwise.
The apple2 package comes with the alternative ProDOS 8 I/O buffer allocation
module <tt/apple2-iobuf-0800.o/ which uses the memory between &dollar;800 and
the program start address for the 1 KB I/O buffers. For system programs (with
start address &dollar;2000) this results in up to 6 I/O buffers and thus up to 6
concurrently open files.
While using <tt/_heapadd()/ as described in the section above together with the
default I/O buffer allocation basically yields the same placement of I/O buffers
the primary benefit of <tt/apple2-iobuf-0800.o/ is a reduction in code size -
and thus program file size - of more than 1400 bytes.
Using <tt/apple2-iobuf-0800.o/ is as simple as placing it on the linker command
line like this:
<tscreen><verb>
cl65 -t apple2 -C apple2-system.cfg myprog.c apple2-iobuf-0800.o
</verb></tscreen>
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<tt/--start-addr $6000/ to reserve both hires pages.
In memory constrained situations the memory from &dollar;803 to &dollar;1FFF
can be made available to a program by executing <tt/_heapadd ((void *) 0x0803, 0x17FD);/
can be made available to a program by calling <tt/_heapadd ((void *) 0x0803, 0x17FD);/
at the beginning of <tt/main()/. Doing so is beneficial even if the program
doesn't use the the heap explicitly because loading the driver (and in fact
already opening the driver file) uses the heap implicitly.
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may be converted to statically linked drivers using the co65 object-file
converter.
<tag>Interrupts</tag>
<tag/Interrupts/
There's no <tt/interruptor/ support. Any attempt to use it yields the message
'FAILED TO ALLOC INTERRUPT' on program startup. This implicitly means that
<tt/a2.stdmou.mou/ and <tt/a2.ssc.ser/ are not functional as they depend on
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Although <htmlurl url="dio.html" name="DIO"> generally works with all ProDOS 8
devices, the function <htmlurl url="dio-3.html" name="dio_query_sectcount()">
simply always return 280 (which is only correct for a 140KB disk).
simply always return 280 (which is only correct for a 140 KB disk).
<sect1>Direct console I/O<p>
<descrip>
<tag>Color</tag>
<tag/Color/
The Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb; has no color text mode. Therefore the functions
<htmlurl url="funcref-205.html" name="textcolor()">,
<htmlurl url="funcref-68.html" name="bgcolor()"> and
<htmlurl url="funcref-69.html" name="bordercolor()"> have no effect.
<tag>Cursor</tag>
<tag/Cursor/
The Apple&nbsp;&rsqb;&lsqb; has no hardware cursor. Therefore the function
<htmlurl url="funcref-88.html" name="cursor()"> has no effect.