... instead of building boot.fs, and then z80c.fs/icore.fs in separate
passes. This strengten xcomp by making it support 2 completely separate
dicts (that is, the X dict is *not* connected to the system dict. The chain
now stops at EXIT def in boot.fs).
`xxd' is not available on all systems, and on others does not support
the `-i' flag. Since bin2c.sh relied on a tool that I can't seem to find
a compatible version of, I have included a simple, portable replacement in C.
Usage remains the same:
bin2c ARRAYNAME < inputfile > outputfile.
This change is also reflected in emul/Makefile.
This should help with the bootstrapping of non-emulated environment.
For example, I have a problem with the RC2014: I can't send it
bootstrap info until the ACIA is up. I need to find a way...
All "stop pings" are now explicitly made at appropriate places. This
fixes a problem I've introduced in the last commit where RAM+ was
unexpectedly part of a stable ABI because of "HERE" usage in dummy.fs.
This system will, anyways, soon change because boot.bin and z80c.bin
will be built during the same process (but there's a bit of retooling
to do before I get there).
Doing this was a bit stupid. These offsets are constants. Moreover,
having them in stable ABI had us construct the boot binary from the
stable ABI of the host, making it very difficult to change RAMSTART
for a new system.
Make LATEST configurable through a value in the binary instead of through
a ZASM constant. This enables the simple concatenation of compiled dicts and
simplifies the build process.