yah thats not up to date. where did you get that? I can post a correction.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 1:31 PM Dan Higdon <therealh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm still struggling to understand how this works: > > 10 a$="Code in ASCII" > 20 call varptr(a$) > > Doesn't varptr(a$) return the address of the string descriptor, which is > [len,lo,hi]? Wouldn't you have to synthesize the call address from > lo+hi*256? > > Or is there something magical about how constant strings are stored? And > how do you relocate the code? Or is the first entry in the string table a > known address, and you just assemble for that position? > > Thanks! > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:30 AM Kurt McCullum <ku...@fastmail.com> wrote: > >> >> It would appear that Steve already came up with a simple solution to my >> problem. I just had to find the file "embedding short ML routines in >> BASIC.txt" >> >> 10 a$="Code in ASCII" Zeros not valid but I can work with that. >> 20 call varptr(a$) >> >> Simple solution Steve. My thanks to you for putting that file together. >> >> Kurt >> >
