collapseos/apps
Virgil Dupras 1a5a1b9861 ed: make scratchpad memory only
The dual scraptchpad thing doesn't work. Things become very
complicated when it's time to write that back to the file. We
overwrite our contents and end up with garbage.
2019-07-21 10:45:58 -04:00
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at28w
ed ed: make scratchpad memory only 2019-07-21 10:45:58 -04:00
lib ed: add support for 'a' and 'i' 2019-07-14 17:35:21 -04:00
memt apps/memt: new app 2019-06-16 20:53:21 -04:00
sdct sdc: support 24-bit addressing 2019-06-15 13:41:20 -04:00
zasm zasm: fix bug with registry selection 2019-07-20 18:07:52 -04:00
README.md

User applications

This folder contains code designed to be "userspace" application. Unlike the kernel, which always stay in memory. Those apps here will more likely be loaded in RAM from storage, ran, then discarded so that another userspace program can be run.

That doesn't mean that you can't include that code in your kernel though, but you will typically not want to do that.

Userspace convention

We execute a userspace application by calling the address it's loaded into. This means: a userspace application is expected to return.

Whatever calls the userspace app (usually, it will be the shell), should set HL to a pointer to unparsed arguments in string form, null terminated.

The userspace application is expected to set A on return. 0 means success, non-zero means error.