[Coco] BASIC09 - unsigned INTEGERs?

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Sun Feb 1 08:55:50 EST 2015


> On Feb 1, 2015, at 7:45 AM, K. Pruitt <pruittk at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 
> This is from the rainbow mag and it does print the correct value:
> 
> PROCEDURE filesize
> TYPE Registers=CC,A,B,DP:BYTE; X,Y,U:INTEGER
> DIM regs:Registers
> DIM path,callcode:BYTE
> OPEN #path,"test":READ
> callcode=$8D
> regs.A:=path
> regs.B=$02
> RUN SysCall(callcode,regs)
> CLOSE #path
> PRINT USING "'Filesize = $',2(h4)",regs.X; regs.U
> 
> I created a file with a size of 92324 bytes and it prints out the correct value of 000168A4.
> 
> I guess the real question now is how do we get this result in to a variable.

Right. That code there is the example from the SYSCALL source code, apparently, from the OS-9 Level 1 days.

http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/SysCall.asm_Level_1 <http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/SysCall.asm_Level_1>

		— A








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