Newsflash (09 January 2001)

Thanks to Rick Moen, the licensing terms for Pila are now comprehensible even to an IP-lawyer. Check out the archives for more info.

News in Pila 1 Beta 3 Fluff 7 (18 Mar 1998)

• defining an address operand like (a6,6) instead of 6(a6) caused the assembler to crash
• spaces in expressions didn't work very well
• compiles without warnings using glibc
• / Mikael Klasson (mklasson@acm.org)
• eliminated a few potential sources of bugs
• / Michael Dreher

News in Pila 1 Beta 3 Fluff 6 (15 Feb 1998)

• gcc -Wall produces no warnings whatsoever now
• Should, perhaps, with some luck, work well even under big-endian machines
• / Michael Dreher

News in Pila 1 Beta 3 Fluff 5 (02 Feb 1998)

• The PILAINC environment variable works under linux as well
• Pila compiles with fewer warnings under linux
• / Michael Dreher

News in Pila 1 Beta 3 Fluff 4 (23 Jan 1998)

• Local labels. Start a labelname with a dot ('.') and it will become local to the procedure in which it was defined
• Incbin directive. Include binary files straight into your prc file
• Compression of the datasection
• Fixed a bug with "ds.T X". Even if X was more than 1, only the first sizeof(T) bytes were initialized to zero
• / Mikael Klasson (mklasson@acm.org)

Download

• Linux binary (requires Linux 2.x and glibc) and docs
• Win95/NT binary and docs
• Source and docs

The source is based on pila1b3unix, a linux port by Damien Neil. I've successfully compiled Pila under both Linux and Win95/NT.

The Original is Pila 1 Beta 3 by Darrin Massena

Feel free to contact me (mklasson@acm.org) if you have any questions/comments.

• Screwing with regs (especially d4?) in PilotMain seems to be a Bad Thing to do...
• A boolean has the size of an unsigned char, i.e 8 bits. Keep in mind that 8-bit arguments are expanded to 16 bits
• DBcc uses only the lower 16 bits of the loopreg
• Some PalmOS APIs destroy d0-d2/a0-a1
• LSd/ASd/ROd/ROXd uses only the lower 6 bits of the countreg
• PalmOS doesn't seem to want other ppl messing with the hardware timers

Have a look at my Pilot links!