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SplitBit-Emulator/Programs/CosmOS/Apps/Compare.asm
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AnachronautandClaude Opus 5 3449405b18 Give the system another page of each memory
CosmOS had 1,161 bytes of Program Memory left before the address applications
load at, and Tab completion is not going to fit in that with anything to spare.
So the wall moves up one page: the system keeps below 0x4FFF and 0x2FFF, and an
application is based at 0x5000 and 0x3000.

A PAGE IS A CHEAP THING TO GIVE IT AND AN EXPENSIVE THING TO RUN OUT OF. An
application still has 44K of Program Memory before the vector table and the
largest one here uses 7.5K, so what was taken from applications is space nothing
has ever asked for - while what the system gained is the difference between
building the next thing and counting bytes while building it.

Not doubling, which was the version that would have cost application space worth
minding. One page, and the same again when it is needed.

Nothing in the machine knows where the wall is, so this is 34 #Base lines, one
threshold in the fault handler, and the table in the CosmOS README that
Tests/docs.sh reads its limits out of.

The native assembler's scratch map had to move with it, and docs.sh said so
before anything ran: its data reached 0x40D6 and its buffers began at 0x4000, so
they were sitting on its variables. That file already carries a paragraph about
the floor coming up and the map staying where it was. It has happened twice now,
and been caught by a check the first time wrote.

Twenty three recordings are the same runs a page higher.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
2026-09-01 16:49:12 -04:00

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NASM

; Compare two files without asking either one to fit in Data Memory.
;
; Each occupied block is read into its own 256-byte buffer. The byte count returned for
; the block is compared before its contents, and only those bytes are examined: bytes
; after the end of a short final block belong to neither file and are allowed to differ.
;
; Written by ChatGPT for Anachronaut's SplitBit
#Include services.asm
#Program
#Base 0x5000
start:
SETD.0 Arguments
INIB 0xFF
SWI osArgument
SETD.0 Arguments
LDA.0
BRA usage
CALL textSplit
SETD.0 TextRest
LDD.0.0
LDA.0
BRA usage
SETD.0 Arguments
SWI osFileInfo
BNQ firstFailed
SETD.0 FirstBlocks
STD.3.0
SETD.0 TextRest
LDD.0.0
SWI osFileInfo
BNQ secondFailed
SETD.0 SecondBlocks
STD.3.0
; A different number of occupied blocks is immediately a different file.
SETD.0 FirstBlocks
LDA.0
SETD.1 SecondBlocks
LDB.1
CCF
SUB
BNQ different
INCD.0
INCD.1
LDA.0
LDB.1
CCF
SUB
BNQ different
SETD.0 FirstBlocks
SETD.1 RemainingBlocks
CALL copyWord
RSTA
SETD.0 Index
STA.0
INCD.0
STA.0
nextBlock:
SETD.0 RemainingBlocks
LDA.0
INCD.0
LDB.0
OR
BRQ alike
SETD.0 Arguments
SETD.1 FirstBlock
CALL readAtIndex
BNQ firstReadFailed
SETD.0 FirstCount
STD.3.0
SETD.0 TextRest
LDD.0.0
SETD.1 SecondBlock
CALL readAtIndex
BNQ secondReadFailed
SETD.0 SecondCount
STD.3.0
; Equal occupied-block counts do not imply equal tails, so compare the valid byte count
; returned for this block as well.
SETD.0 FirstCount
LDA.0
SETD.1 SecondCount
LDB.1
CCF
SUB
BNQ different
INCD.0
INCD.1
LDA.0
LDB.1
CCF
SUB
BNQ different
SETD.0 FirstCount
SETD.1 BytesLeft
CALL copyWord
SETD.0 FirstBlock
SETD.1 SecondBlock
compareByte:
SETD.2 BytesLeft
LDA.2
INCD.2
LDB.2
OR
BRQ blockSame
LDA.0
LDB.1
CCF
SUB
BNQ different
INCD.0
INCD.1
SETD.2 BytesLeft
CALL takeByte
BRI compareByte
blockSame:
CALL stepIndex
CALL takeBlock
BRI nextBlock
; DP0 is the path and DP1 the destination buffer. Q and DP3 are the service answers.
readAtIndex:
SETD.2 Index
LDA.2
INCD.2
LDB.2
SWI osFileBlock
RET
; DP0 names the source word and DP1 the destination word.
copyWord:
LDA.0
STA.1
INCD.0
INCD.1
LDA.0
STA.1
RET
stepIndex:
SETD.0 Index
INCD.0
LDA.0
INCA
STA.0
BNC stepDone
DECD.0
LDA.0
INCA
STA.0
stepDone:
RET
takeBlock:
SETD.0 RemainingBlocks
INCD.0
LDA.0
BRA blockBorrow
DECA
STA.0
RET
blockBorrow:
INIA 0xFF
STA.0
DECD.0
LDA.0
DECA
STA.0
RET
; Decrement the big-endian sixteen-bit BytesLeft. A full block arrives as 0x0100, so an
; eight-bit counter would compare none of it and call many different files equal.
takeByte:
INCD.2
LDA.2
BRA byteBorrow
DECA
STA.2
RET
byteBorrow:
INIA 0xFF
STA.2
DECD.2
LDA.2
DECA
STA.2
RET
alike:
SETD.0 SameText
SWI osPrintString
RSTA
SWI osExit
different:
SETD.0 DifferentText
SWI osPrintString
INIA 0d1
SWI osExit
usage:
SETD.0 Usage
SWI osPrintString
INIA 0d2
SWI osExit
firstFailed:
SETD.0 FirstError
SWI osPrintString
INIA 0d2
SWI osExit
secondFailed:
SETD.0 SecondError
SWI osPrintString
INIA 0d2
SWI osExit
firstReadFailed:
SETD.0 FirstReadError
SWI osPrintString
INIA 0d2
SWI osExit
secondReadFailed:
SETD.0 SecondReadError
SWI osPrintString
INIA 0d2
SWI osExit
#Data
#Base 0x3000
Arguments:
#Reserve 0d256
FirstBlocks:
0x00 0x00
SecondBlocks:
0x00 0x00
RemainingBlocks:
0x00 0x00
Index:
0x00 0x00
FirstCount:
0x00 0x00
SecondCount:
0x00 0x00
BytesLeft:
0x00 0x00
FirstBlock:
#Reserve 0d256
SecondBlock:
#Reserve 0d256
Usage:
"compare: give me two files
"
FirstError:
"compare: cannot find the first file
"
SecondError:
"compare: cannot find the second file
"
FirstReadError:
"compare: cannot read the first file
"
SecondReadError:
"compare: cannot read the second file
"
SameText:
"the same
"
DifferentText:
"different
"
#Include text.asm