Possible String issue? (*solved*)

[boriel]

Someone mentioned me?

I'm glad you swapped to mercurial. It's what we use at work, so I'm starting to be familiar with it - even though I'm not in development, so I tend to limit what to do to hg -u pull

Heyyyy, Welcoooooooooooooooooooooome :!:

You can pull the ZX Basic compiler (click above to have a look at the repos), with:

Code:

hg clone https://boriel.dyndns.org/hg/zxbasic

or using TortoiseHg.

Also, the compiler is rather unstable now (see download page). It turns out you were right. I was puzzled about asm code generation you pointed out somewhere in this forum. The compiler was generating very obfuscated asm code. Eg.

Code:

DIM a as UInteger
DIM b as UByte

LET b = a AND a

Generates

Code:

ld hl, (_a)
    push hl
    ld hl, (_a)
    ex de, hl
    pop hl
    call __AND16
    ld (_b), a

Instead of

Code:

ld hl, (_a)
    ld de, (_a)
    call __AND16
    ld (_b), a

It turns out I wasn't aware of it because I was using -O3 parameter on many tests (which effectively cleans up the code a lot). Now I'm fixing this, because cleaner code not only is better, but also allows -O3 to optimize even better and more. :roll: