Is there a way to form a list of free cog space ?

Toby Seckshund

I wonder if there is a way to get a definitive list of the free cog longs. Up until now the only way I have used is to crash into the end (496) and then try and get some back afterwards.

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Baggers

Toby, you can make a loop of creating new cogs ( keeping a list of COG id numbers ), and when you get one that doesn't create, you then know how many are free, and you can then release those in the list.

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BradC

Toby Seckshund said...
I wonder if there is a way to get a definitive list of the free cog longs. Up until now the only way I have used is to crash into the end (496) and then try and get some back afterwards.

The list window in bst tells you the space remaining after every FIT statement. (Thank heater for that one)

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Toby Seckshund

Thanks for the replies folks.

Brad
you will have to try and educate the stupid here, which bit is that?

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Kye

You can count the remaining bytes.

When you click on a DAT section the compilier tells you how many bytes you have left. Add the res longs to that and you have your count.

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pjv

Toby;

If you put a bogus LONG 0 as the last line in your program, then clicking on that line, the prop tool tells you (at the very bottom of the page) the COG location that line resides in, and hence you know you have $1FF minus that number remaining.

P.S. Actually I just tried the slightly improved following:

Label your "fit" statement with a name (I used End), and then do a compile (press F8). Then when your mouse is clicked on that End label, the total cog space consumed is indicated in hex, as well as the size of the current DAT block.

Cheers,

Peter (pjv)

Post Edited (pjv) : 5/14/2010 4:57:09 PM GMT

Baggers

oops, I misread that lol, ignore my reply, my bad, thought you asked how many cogs were remaining.

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Toby Seckshund

Not a problem Baggers, it did make me look back at what I did ask though

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BradC

Toby Seckshund said...
Thanks for the replies folks.

Brad
you will have to try and educate the stupid here, which bit is that?

Go "View->Compiler Listing" then put the window in the background somewhere.

Next time you compile you'll get a neat little listing of your program in that window. Somewhere near the bottom of your cog objects you'll see something like this :

03E4(0107)             | b_ptr         res       1
03E4(0108)             | b_len         res       1
03E4(0109)             |               fit       496
03E4(0109)             | There are 231 ($0E7) Longs left in the cog    

Of course you need to have the fit directive there for it to work.

If you use the Propeller Tool, you can always do as the lads said above. I used to do that myself before heater asked for something a bit neater.
(you can still use the Propeller Tool method in bst too of course).

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