it seems I left my asm argument harmonization half done here.
Instructions list at B208 doesn't correspond to many actual
mnemonics. This mnemonic here was the worst offender.
It's a bit more inconvenient in terms of register protection (BC
is much more generally useful than IY), but it makes tight spots
such as next and execute much faster, so I think it's worth it.
Only its jump at 0x33 remains.
I've also fixed a strange offset oddity in 8086's (n) placement.
It was off by 2, but strangely, it ran properly. Anyway, now it's
fixed.
Initially, I used the same letters as those used in the z80 ref
docs, but it makes the different assemblers harder to use than they
should. Having consistent "argtype" rules across assemblers should
help.
Use EXX instead of the stack for HL protection and remove all
spurious uses of chkPS,
I wanted to inline chkPS in next because of its "tight loop" status,
but for reasons I don't understand, doing so breaks Collapse OS.
Later...
DO and LOOP now only compile words from stable ABI, which make them
suitable for xcomp. This will greatly simplify driver writing and
allow us to mostly avoid the low/high divide in drivers.
LEAVE is still xcomp-incompatible though.
This make us very very tight for "<0x100" limit for literal words.
Hopefully, we won't need more stuff in that area of the binary...
Virgil Dupras