How to declare variable at specific ram position in VAR block

Christofer A

Hi all,

I am looking for a way to declare variable at specific ram position, to be able to read and wright to variable without knowing its name. maybe using word[noparse][[/noparse]$1234] if 1234 is the ram position.

Or is there a way in spin to find out a variables ram position?

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
Christofer

tpw_man

To find out a variable's position in RAM, you can use the @ operator. It returns the address of the variable in hub RAM. If you want to 'declare' a variable somewhere in RAM at runtime, you can just use a constant with the address, but be very sure to check if the address is occupied or could be occupied. If so, it will cause huge problems!
Examples:

'to get the address of a variable and assign 1 to it

PUB main | var, addr_var
addr_var := @var
long[noparse][[/noparse]addr_var] := 1
'or
long[noparse][[/noparse]@var] := 1
'for a locally declared variable (not using the VAR section), it is always a long

'to get the address of a global (in VAR section) variable and assign 1 to it
VAR
word var 'can be word, long, or byte. just make sure you address it as so

PUB main | var_addr
var_addr := @var
word[noparse][[/noparse]var_addr] := 1


'to just "assign" a variable in ram and assign that position a 1
CON
var_location = $7000 

PUB main
long[noparse][[/noparse]var_location] := 1
'you can use byte, word, or long as well

You MUST use either a word or a long to hold the address as it is 16 bit.

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Post Edited (tpw_man) : 5/14/2008 8:51:24 PM GMT

Christofer A

brilliant, thank you very much.
Also thanks for the quick reply [noparse]:)[/noparse]

//Christofer