[TUHS] C <-> ASM problem

[Oliver Lehmann]

Hi,

while creating a web-page about the open questions of how to create C
code which compiles through the optimizer run to the same ASM code as the
original object was made from, I found the fix for one of my two "top"
questions. 

The (right now) remaining question is here:

	http://pofo.de/P8000/problems.php



The other (solved) problem was:

I had the following ASM code:

         ldk     r2,#0
         ldb     rl2,_u+1060
         ld      r3,r2
         neg     r3
         add     r3,#256
         ldb     rh3,rl3
         clrb    rl3
         ld      _u+48,r3

so i created the following C code out of it:

u.u_count = (-u.u_segmts[NUSEGS-1].sg_limit+0x100)<<8;

but this compiled to this ASM code:

         ldk     r2,#0
         ldb     rl2,_u+1060
         neg     r2
         add     r2,#256
         ldb     rh2,rl2
         clrb    rl2
         ld      _u+48,r2

As you can see the copy of r2 to r3 and the further processing with r3 is
missing here. I also thought "who the fuck would write such an C-code,
the code must look different". but I did not found the solution what
could have been written in the C code until I've talked today with a
colleague of mine at work about ASM and my problems. He isn't familar
with  Z80(00)-ASM but he used to program ASM years ago with his C64. We
took the ASM code and simulated it with values:

_u+1060 contains 15 and is loaded to rl2   15	(0x000F / 00000000 00001111)
this gets negated (2 complement formed)	  -15	(0xFFF1 / 11111111 11110001)
to that, 256 gets added			  241	(0x00F1 / 00000000 11110001)
this is 8 bit rightshiftet		61696	(0xF100 / 11110001 00000000)
the result gets loaded into _u+48

He then got the idea that all this could be aritmetical written
as ((256 - 15)*256) because -15+256 is == 256-15 and rightshifts are done
aritmetically by multiplying the value with 256. It could have also been
done by having 256² - 256*x. This was great. With that information I wrote
in C:

u.u_count = (256-u.u_segmts[NUSEGS-1].sg_limit)<<8;

And this generated the same ASM code as in the original code 
problem solved :)

-- 
 Oliver Lehmann
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