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Hex Compiling
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 10:19 pm
by Derek_Stewart
Hi,
What is the way to compile Hexadecimal numbers with Qliberator and SMSQ/E.
SMSQ/E can display hexadecimal numbers prefixed with a $ symbol.
Unfortunatley, Qliberator gives an error when trying to compile the statement.
Strangely enough, Turbo compiles this with no errors and works as expected.
Re: Hex Compiling
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 6:59 am
by tofro
Derek,
There's an utility somewhere on Per's site (just recently re-opened), I believe, that replaces all hexadecimal constants in S*Basic programs with decimals for compilation. Should come in handy here.
(Thus, this is a just-in.time question)
Tobias
Re: Hex Compiling
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 7:19 am
by JonS
Why not use HEX command?
Re: Hex Compiling
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 7:28 am
by tofro
JonS wrote:Why not use HEX command?
You can use that. But if you have a lot of these hex constants in a program, this might
- be quite some work
- be slow (runtime-wise): QLiberator is not smart enough to see that HEX("<constant>") is still a constant and uses valuable time to do the conversion at run-time. Replacing the hex constant with a "real", numerical constant is much faster
Tobias
Re: Hex Compiling
Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 9:59 pm
by EmmBee
tofro wrote:
There's an utility somewhere on Per's site (just recently re-opened), I believe, that replaces all hexadecimal constants in S*Basic programs with decimals for compilation. Should come in handy here.
Yes, I've found it here ...
http://www.knoware.no/
It can be found under ENTER / GO SUB / DeHex
It looks like a very neat procedure.
Regarding Turbo, I note that it's not possible to compile a $0 or %0.
Those cases would have to use a plain 0.
Michael