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NormalLuser

Post subject: How to deal with code that will be relocated?

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:59 pm

Joined: Sun Sep 24, 2023 3:45 pm
Posts: 47

Hi all. I’m working on my Bad Apple! video decoder and have this version just about finished up.
One of the last things I wanted was a self contained ROM that boots right up to the demo.
The problem is that I have a little bit of self modifying code so I want to move some to RAM and I don't quite know what the correct way is to deal with this.
I know how to move data from ROM to RAM, but how do I deal with it from the source side?

IE, I can do a:

Code:

  .org $500
  .. source code ..

assemble, then on my ROM file do something like

Code:

 .org $5000
 .. source code ..
 .org $6000 
 include file.bin

but I was wondering if there was a way to keep everything in the same source file?
Is there a 'Assemble To' command that I can't seem to figure out?
Maybe something like:

Code:

 .org $6000 
 .. source code..
.RelocateLoop ;routine to move code
 LDA RelocateCode,x
 STA $500,x
 inx
 bne .RelocateLoop

RelocateCode:  ; location in output is after above code
 .assembleto $500  ; but the code uses $500 as base address
.Top ; location $500
.. source code ..
jmp .Top ;IE jmp $500
.Bottom
endassembleto

I can’t quite seem to find what I’m looking for from the source code management side.
Thanks!

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jgharston

Post subject: Re: How to deal with code that will be relocated?

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:50 am

Joined: Sun Feb 22, 2004 9:01 pm
Posts: 104

Relocated or copied? If it's some code you copy elsewhere to execute, if it's small enough, I usually just embed the difference into the code. Eg:

LDX #codeend-code-1
.initlp
LDA code,X:STA &100,X:DEX:BPL initlp
CALL &100
...
.code ; this code will be copied to &100 onwards
LDA &F4:PHA
LDA #0:JSR romsel-code+&100 ; dest address will be at &100+(distance from code to romsel)
JSR sidecall:PLA
.romsel ; this point will be at &100+(distance from code to here)
STA &F4:STA &FE30:RTS
.codeend

If it's more complicated than that, I think the thing you are looking for your assembler to support is "REPHASE".

org &8000
...
LDX #codeend-code-1
.initlp
LDA code,X:STA &100,X:DEX:BPL initlp
CALL &100
...
phase &100 ; this will be stored here but targetted at &100
.code ; this code will be copied to &100 onwards
LDA &F4:PHA
LDA #0:JSR romsel ; dest address will be at &100+(distance from code to romsel)
JSR sidecall:PLA
.romsel ; this point will be at &100+(distance from code to here)
STA &F4:STA &FE30:RTS
.codeend
dephase ; we now return to storing at &8000+whatever onwards

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vbc

Post subject: Re: How to deal with code that will be relocated?

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 12:46 pm

Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2020 5:04 pm
Posts: 50

NormalLuser wrote:

there was a way to keep everything in the same source file?
Is there a 'Assemble To' command that I can't seem to figure out?

I don't know what assembler you are using, but with vasm this can be done using rorg/rend directives:

Code:

 Source: "x.s"
                                     1:  .org $6000 
                                     2: ; .. source code..
                                     3: test1
00:6000 4C0060                       4:  jmp test1
                                     5: .RelocateLoop ;routine to move code
00:6003 BD0C60                       6:  LDA RelocateCode,x
00:6006 9D0005                       7:  STA $500,x
00:6009 E8                           8:  inx
00:600A D0F7                         9:  bne .RelocateLoop
                                    10: 
                                    11: RelocateCode:  ; location in output is after above code
                                    12: ; .assembleto $500  ; but the code uses $500 as base address
                                    13:  .rorg $500
                                    14: Top ; location $500
                                    15: ;.. source code ..
00:0500 4C0005                      16:  jmp Top ;IE jmp $500
                                    17: .Bottom
                                    18:  .rend
                                    19: ;endassembleto
                                    20: test2
00:600F 4C0F60                      21:  jmp test2
                                    22: 


Symbols by name:
RelocateCode                     A:600C
Top                              A:0500
test1                            A:6000
test2                            A:600F

> hexdump -C x.out 
00000000  4c 00 60 bd 0c 60 9d 00  05 e8 d0 f7 4c 00 05 4c  |L.`..`......L..L|
00000010  0f 60

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NormalLuser

Post subject: Re: How to deal with code that will be relocated?

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:39 pm

Joined: Sun Sep 24, 2023 3:45 pm
Posts: 47

Thanks guys!
.rorg $1234 and .rend is exactly what I needed.
Don't know how I missed that in the vasm manual.
Worked great!

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fachat

Post subject: Re: How to deal with code that will be relocated?

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:45 pm

Joined: Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:08 pm
Posts: 1042
Location: near Heidelberg, Germany

In xa65 you can just do a
*=1234
to redefine the PC at any time.

And even use
*=
to enter relocatable mode if using -R to create relocatable o65 files (relocatable at load time)

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