[Coco] edition byte

[William Astle]

The edition symbol appears after endsect so it isn't actually in the __os9 section.

I don't recall why the and is there. There must have been some reason though.

-------- Original message --------
From: Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> 
Date: 02-08-2014  6:04 PM  (GMT-07:00) 
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
Subject: Re: [Coco] edition byte 
 
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:13 PM, William Astle wrote:
> It is only when you are doing separate linking (for instance, rma/rlink or
> lwasm/lwlink) that the edition can be automatically added, and then it is
> done by the linker. lwlink does, in fact, support this. However, lwlink does
> support this. It requires putting some things into a special section called
> "__os9". This can be used to specify the module name and several other
> module features. The symbols supported in that section are "type", "lang",
> "attr", "rev", "stack" and "edition". The "edition" symbol might not be
> mentioned in the documentation, on reflection. These symbols are only
> recognized by lwlink if they are in the "__os9" section.

William,
The "edition" symbol is not mentioned in the documentation.  So I
ass-umed it wasn't supported. It did not help that the lwtools code I
looked at was an older checkout... You added this support exactly one
year ago :)

However, it looks broken. I moved the EDITION symbol into the __os9
section (from what I had here
http://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/code/ci/default/tree/3rdparty/packages/pacos9/main90.as#l12)
but the resulting os9 ident value is 0, not 2.

Why is the edition value and'ed with 0x80 in do_output_os9() ?

Regards,
Tormod

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