Recent changes to feature-requests

OnBC: support for arrays larger than 32k

Lincoln Ramsay — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:09:47 -0000

With UInt32 *arrayP,

arrayP[8192] accesses the wrong location in memory

*(arrayP+8192) accesses the correct location in memory

This looks like a limitation of the 68k system rather than OnBoardC per-se. OnBoardC generates the ASM code:

writeTokenToBuffer(Asm_LeftParen);
writeRegToBuffer(operand->reg);
writeTokenToBuffer(Asm_Comma);
writeRegToBuffer(operand->reg2);
writeTokenToBuffer(Asm_RightParen);

That is, the code generated to access an array element uses two registers. A register is the same size as an int which means you're limited to 16-bit offsets (or rather 15 bits since it's interpreted as a signed value).

It should be possible for OnBoardC to generate similar code for arrayP[8192] as it does for *(arrayP+8192) to work around this limitation. I'm not sure of the performance impact (eg. may require several operations instead of just one) so perhaps this should be done only when accessing >32k of data rather than for all array accesses.

SrcEdit: Twin document view

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:10:31 -0000

2 documents open side by side on the screen.

OnBC: Add Piaf as possible DocEditor

John Wilund — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:38:27 -0000

Piaf is the main editor for PP coders. Since it's free OnBC should support it.

OnBC: Add tejpWriter as possible DocEditor

John Wilund — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:25:19 -0000

tejpWriter is a cool editor. Since it is free OnBC should support it! /John

OnBC: Please add a goto button if the line is known

John Wilund — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:08:01 -0000

While compiling it is feels very stupid to having to leave OBC via the Launcher to goto the line with the error in SrcEdit. If OBC knows the line number, please add a Goto-button.

OnBoardHeader54.h

Ryan — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:53:09 -0000

I'm building a new OnBoardHeader.h: derived from sdk-5r4. Will include highDensity function systraps, penInputManager traps, and onboardheader 4.0, and various other stuff. May include most if not all of the API traps.

mail suggestions to phrkonaleash@aim.com .

Bird 1.08 supported now.

ben — Sat, 27 May 2006 03:24:22 -0000

Bird 1.08 resource editor is compatible with onboardC.
It's a good news, because there is now a free
alternative to rsrcedit witch is commercial (not very
compatible with an open-source project like onboardc...)

I've made a patch. I'm attaching it here.

Now, adding a choice for different resource editors
should now be trivial.

Bye!

ToolBar AddOns to SrcEdit

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:08:16 -0000

I'v added new toolbar buttons to SrcEdit on the 23-03-
2006, but found it difficult to attach their functions
without the source code.

I did the job using RsrcEdit on Treo-600.

I am attaching here the file. If someone has got the
SrcEdit source code and wishes to complete the job,
fine!!!, else may I be granted a copy of it in order to
complete my ideas before a final upload to the OnBoardC
Forum?

Henshaw O.A-T.

BIRD as alternative resource editor

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:01:34 -0000

Is it possible to let the user configure BIRD (instead of
RsrcEdit) as the resource editor?

Your docs say that the project "unfortunately" needs a
shareware tool, so I wonder why BIRD isnt already
supported ;-)

OnBC: Support for variable argument lists

Steve Little — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:40:05 -0000

OnBoardC currently doesn't properly support variable
argument lists. It would be good if it did...