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'hack' to allow unsigned long constants such as $ffffffff to be assigned to longs without casts

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Irmen de Jong
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@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Language Features
- it is a cross-compiler running on modern machines (Linux, MacOS, Windows, ...)
- the compiled programs run very fast, because compilation to highly efficient native machine code.
- code often is smaller and faster than equivalent C code compiled with CC65 or even LLVM-MOS
- compiled code is very compact; it is much smaller and usually also runs faster than equivalent C code compiled with CC65
- provides a convenient and fast edit/compile/run cycle by being able to directly launch
the compiled program in an emulator and provide debugging information to this emulator.
- the language looks like a mix of Python and C so should be quite easy to learn
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still able to directly use memory addresses and ROM subroutines,
and inline assembly to have full control when every register, cycle or byte matters
- Variables are all allocated statically, no memory allocation overhead
- Variable data types include signed and unsigned bytes and words, arrays, strings.
- Variable data types include signed and unsigned bytes and words, long integers, floats, arrays, and strings.
- Structs and typed pointers
- Tight control over Zeropage usage
- Programs can be restarted after exiting (i.e. run them multiple times without having to reload everything), due to automatic variable (re)initializations.