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Syntax for reserving variables in NQC?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
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Sun, 28 May 2000 21:50:22 GMT
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The fact that in RCX2 the counters are overlapped with global variables
has brought about an interesting problem. How should a programmer
indicate to the NQC compiler that a certain RCX variable location is to
be left untouched (not assigned to any NQC globa/local/temp variable)?
What should the synatx be? The only thing even remotely close to this
in normal C/C++ is the ability to specify certain registers for function
arguments in support of inline assembly, or interfacing to OS glue.
At present I'm leaning more towards a #pragma rather than introducing
another keyword into the language...
// reserve RCX variable location 1
#pragma reserve 1
How does this sound? Would people prefer a language construct for this
(and if so, what should it be)?
Dave Baum
p.s. I realize that in theory NQC could automatically determine counter
usage and reserve the locations on behalf of the programmer. Perhaps
I'll add that functionality eventually. But the idea of reserving a
specific location has merit on its own, so I see this as a general
purpose solution to the counter problem.
--
reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com
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 | | Re: Syntax for reserving variables in NQC?
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| Dave Baum schreef: (...) It looks perfectly logical to me. Will it be possible to reserve a range or do we need to reserve each location separately? No need for an extra keyword indeed. (It's hard enough already. Well I guess part of that comes from (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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