Re: [Ql-Users] Debugging nightmare

2012-05-26 Thread Ian Pine
- Original Message - From: John Alexander acontractor...@yahoo.co.uk To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Debugging nightmare Ian, I'm sure it's been doing this for the last 34 years or so ;) Encouraged me to rough up a 68K

[Ql-Users] Debugging nightmare

2012-05-23 Thread Ian Pine
Damn damn damn ... I've just spent nearly a day and a half trying to debug a simple bit of assembler code because I forgot that on m68k CPUs the MOVE instructions alter the flags and I was convinced all sorts of other problems might've been the cause, but in the end all I had to do was swap

Re: [Ql-Users] Debugging nightmare

2012-05-23 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Ian, On 23/05/12 12:52, Ian Pine wrote: Damn damn damn ... ... because I forgot that on m68k CPUs the MOVE instructions alter the flags ... Well, it does alter the flags, unless: * You specifically use the MOVEA instruction; or * You specify MOVE with an address register as the

Re: [Ql-Users] Debugging nightmare

2012-05-23 Thread George Gwilt
On 23 May 2012, at 13:24, Norman Dunbar wrote: On 23/05/12 12:52, Ian Pine wrote: Damn damn damn ... ... because I forgot that on m68k CPUs the MOVE instructions alter the flags ... Well, it does alter the flags, unless: * You specifically use the MOVEA instruction; or * You

Re: [Ql-Users] Debugging nightmare

2012-05-23 Thread John Alexander
Ian, I'm sure it's been doing this for the last 34 years or so ;) Encouraged me to rough up a 68K controller for old school kicks though ..Cheers John A --- On Wed, 23/5/12, Ian Pine ilp...@tesco.net wrote: From: Ian Pine ilp...@tesco.net Subject: [Ql-Users] Debugging nightmare To: ql-us...@q