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Assembler shortcut
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Not sure where else to put this - Not really a bug, per se, as an efficiency; I mentioned it elsewhere but I think it got lost.

With a sub that pokes memory based on labels:

eg:

Code:
SUB pokethis(data as uByte)
poke @label+1,data
return

label:
asm
LD A,00
end asm

Seems to produce assembler that does this:
Code:
ld hl, __LABEL__BLPutCharHeight
inc hl

Can the compiler not shortcut that to
Code:
ld hl, __LABEL__BLPutCharHeight+N ?
and work out at assembly time where that should be, thus producing shorter and faster code for what is, after all, a constant?

(or is there something clever in the optimizer that spots that sort of thing - load followed by incs or fixed adds?)
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