Is there a pasm command to pad data?

Dr_Acula

Quick question - I have a piece of pasm code and I have a 'fit 496' at the end. Is there an instruction that I can add in pasm code that pads out my code so it always takes 496 (or 495) longs?

The reason is that I have a huge screen buffer and I am working on putting all the cog load code into this buffer, loading them into the cog and then recycling the screen buffer.

If my screen buffer is n bytes long, and I then put some cog code in that buffer that is x bytes long, I then need to subtract x from n from the screen buffer (otherwise this doesn't save anything!).

At the moment I'm determining the cog size by trial and error, but I was just wondering if I could ensure that the cog code was always a known size.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

I'm not at my shop computer, so can't try it, but maybe:

        long 0[496 - $]

-Phil

Heater.

If I remember correctly the $ sign gets you the current address you are filling in your PASM block.
So declare an array of longs at the end of the PASM that has length 496 - $

Dr_Acula

Thanks++, that works.

Getting some much faster downloads for the 256x224 video driver thanks to this. Cheers.