[TI ASM] Freak!

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 3:24 am

Can anyone explain why when I compile:
.db "Doctor's fee. Pay $50",0,10

it compiles as "Doctor's fee. Pay $50" without the 0 and 10 appended? I can add any amount of numbers to the end and the program size won't change.

.db "Doctor's fee."
.db "Pay $50",0,10
works just fine.

.db "Tax refund. Collect $20",0,10 also works just fine.

TASM.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 4:10 am

Tasm is a bit psycho. Try Spasm or brass.

Spencer · Post by **Spencer** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 4:35 am

It has to do with the '.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 4:45 am

Yeah, I used a token when I did '.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 4:53 am

You have to just insert the ascii number for ' like so:

Code: Select all

 .db "Doctor",$27,"s fee. Pay $50",0,10

Perhaps that will help?

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 4:54 am

Oh, wow, thanks!

Saibot84 · Post by **Saibot84** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 5:49 pm

while on the subject, isn't there a limit to how many bytes of data TASM can handle per .db statement?

Post by **benryves** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 5:50 pm

Saibot84 wrote:while on the subject, isn't there a limit to how many bytes of data TASM can handle per .db statement?

Yep. This, and the "...'..." bug were the driving force for Brass.

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 8:43 pm

That's what I thought the issue was, that I had too many characters. But as a result of this, I just downloaded Brass/Latenight and finally took the time to set it up for Monopoly

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 8:56 pm

Isn't the limit somewhere around 36?

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Thu 07 Sep, 2006 10:20 pm

I don't know if it's mentioned here or not, ha.

Maximum number of labels 15000
Maximum length of labels 32 characters
Maximum address space 64 Kbytes (65536 bytes)
Maximum number of nested INCLUDES 4
Maximum length of TITLE string 79 characters
Maximum source line length 511 characters
Maximum length after macro expansion 511 characters
Maximum length of expressions 511 characters
Maximum length of pathnames 79 characters
Maximum length of command line 127 characters
Maximum number of instructions (per table) 1200
Maximum number of macros 1000
Maximum number of macro arguments 10
Maximum length of macro argument 16 characters
Memory requirements 512K