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SplitBit-Emulator/Programs/CosmOS/Apps/Fib-16.asm
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Anachronaut 87d819847e A program can say how it went
SWI osExit takes a status in A, and the shell keeps it. Fifty eight exits
across twenty three programs now say deliberately whether they worked: 25
did what they were asked, 24 did not, 9 were asked wrongly. Compare is the
exception and says so - one there means the files differ, which is a result
rather than a failure, the way diff has always had it.

IN A RATHER THAN Q, which is not a departure from the rule that a service
answers in Q. This one takes an ARGUMENT, the way osPrintNumber takes A and
B, and it never returns to answer anything. A is free precisely because a
return would have put it back - and Q is the ALU's output, so a small
number costs four instructions there against one in A.

The shell does not print it. A program that failed has already said so in
words and a number beside that is noise, so osLastStatus hands it back and
Status is the program that shows it. That indirection is the point: the
number exists for the thing that cannot read words.

MARKING THE EXITS FOUND A DEFECT ON THE FIRST RUN. Type and More printed
why they had failed and then fell through into the success exit, reporting
that all was well. Nobody had noticed, because while the only reader was a
person, the person could see both the complaint and the claim.

Two smaller things. Snake sets the console to line mode and then exits with
zero, and the linter flagged the second RSTA as redundant - an exit status
and a console mode, equal by accident, which is the class that must never
be collapsed. And the README still taught answering by writing into the
frame, three months of habit that SRET replaced yesterday; that section is
gone and the one describing SRET stands in its place.
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NASM

; A Fibonacci number generating program that uses two bytes to store the value.
#Include services.asm
#Program
#Base 0x4000
start:
; Swap ValueB and ValueA.
; First, store ValueA on the stack.
SETD ValueA
LDA
PSHA
INCD
LDA
PSHA
; Now copy ValueB into AB.
SETD ValueB
LDA ; High byte
INCD
LDB ; Low byte
; Now save it back to ValueA
SETD ValueA
STA ; High byte
INCD
STB ; Low byte.
; Now retrieve value A from the stack and store it in ValueB.
POPB
POPA
SETD ValueB
STA
INCD
STB
; Print ValueA.
SETD ValueA
LDA
CALL printByteHex
INCD
LDA
CALL printByteHex
CALL blankSpace
; Now add ValueA and ValueB, and store the result in ValueA.
; Add the low bytes of ValueA and ValueB
SETD ValueB
INCD
LDA
SETD ValueA
INCD
LDB
CCF
ADD
; Store the result in ValueA.
STQ
; Now add the high bytes of ValueA and ValueB.
DECD
LDB
SETD ValueB
LDA
ADD
; If this addition overflows, we're done.
BRC end
; Otherwise, store the result in ValueA.
SETD ValueA
STQ
; And branch back to the beginning of the loop.
BRI start
end:
CALL lineFeed
RSTA
SWI osExit
#Data
#Base 0x2000
ValueA:
; Low byte, high byte.
0x00 0x01
ValueB:
; Low byte, high byte.
0x00 0x00
#Include print.asm