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From: jake@labpca.mscs.mu.edu (Jake Buchholz)
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Subject: Arrrgh, why's this not working?
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Date: 12 Jun 91 18:32:47 GMT
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Righto, time to ask for more help...  The following code is supposed to take
two parameters off the stack, and then print t1 as a character t2 times.
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         mcopy 2/ainclude/m16.msc
         mcopy 2/ainclude/m16.i.o

rpt      start

t1       dc    i'0'
t2       dc    i'0'

         pl2   t1
         pl2   t2
         lda   #0
l1       cmp   t1
         beq   l3
l2       cout  t2
         dec   t1
         bne   l2
l3       rtl
         end
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This is what the assembler says when I try to compile this bugger...
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ORCA/M ASM65816 1.1.1                    9 Jun 1991  14:18:47

Pass 1: rpt 
Pass 2: rpt 
     0014             +         PH2   &CHAR
Error RPT.ASM         22    Unidentified Operation 

1 errors found
16 was highest error level
 
26 source lines
5 macros expanded
33 lines generated
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I don't use assembly very often, I could have missed something very obvious.
If you have an idea what went wrong, please respond.

If it has any bearing on this at all, I'm attempting to link this code into
an Orca/C program with #append "file.asm", with it declared as

extern void rpt(char c, int n);

Another question would be whether or not I'm passing the parameters correctly.
(Either this kind of thing doesn't show up in the manuals (Orca/C or Orca/M)
or my retina's been burnt out by this screen worse than I've expected...)


jake@sc.mscs.mu.edu
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