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Large programs
« on: March 24, 2010, 12:21:18 pm »
What happens if you make a program with more than 65,535 bytes?  I ask because the program definition in user memory has two bytes for size, which leads me to the concusion that FFFF is the maximum size.

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Re: Large programs
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2010, 02:13:44 pm »
...Reality breaks? >:D
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Re: Large programs
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2010, 03:17:30 pm »
Wouldn't the next data past 65536 overflows elsewhere in the memory, causing potential issues?

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Re: Large programs
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2010, 03:52:34 pm »
Thanks for the help, Prophets and jsj!
It would probably overflow to 0000 again, DJ, but that wouldn't be accurate, either.

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Re: Large programs
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2010, 04:05:25 pm »
It would probably have to be slightly smaller, so the VAT entry and such could fit in archive.
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Re: Large programs
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2010, 04:06:38 pm »
I don't follow you, could you elaborate?

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Re: Large programs
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2010, 09:42:16 pm »
Each sector of archive is 64KB, and programs cannot overflow from one sector to another. So, a couple of bytes are used at the beginning of the sector for OS purposes, then a number of bytes would be stored for the backup program name and such, then the rest would be available for program data.
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Re: Large programs
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2010, 10:55:42 pm »
I thought they were 16? I guess I confused sectors with pages x.x

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Re: Large programs
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2010, 12:56:22 am »
I tried editing the filesize once w/ a hex editor to FFFF and my calc acted randomly when I checked the memory, like the filesize is missing and/or the RAM clears...

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Re: Large programs
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2010, 01:01:50 am »
Another thing: When you go in MEM menu, if a program/file is larger than 65535, doesn't it cause ERR:MEMORY then the size missing you're talking about?

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Re: Large programs
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2010, 01:09:49 am »
I don't remember exactly... I have to reproduce some of my favorite glitches I discovered while hacking my calculator, then post it on the forums.

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Re: Large programs
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2010, 01:15:19 am »
Ok. Make sure to not post the ones involving ASM in the alerady existing thread, though, (the OS glitches thread i mean)

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Re: Large programs
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2010, 01:26:19 pm »
I actually got a Bad Address error today, when trying to unarchive Sam Heald's Mario, of all things. It gave a large memory leak, too. I had to manually create a new program, copy the data to it, and delete the old one. Calcsys is awesome that way :P
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Re: Large programs
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2010, 01:27:16 pm »
Calcsys rules for that kind of stuff.  Its like sudo for your calculator.

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Re: Large programs
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2010, 05:42:46 pm »
Calc84 I had this happen on some of my games before without even running ASM. It's annoying when you doNt know how to use Calcsys well or don't have it handy x.x, cuz you can lose lot of progress