PropTool binary files

ozpropdev

Hi All.
Recently i went back to an old P2 project which includes some PASM binary "blobs".
After generating some new binaries and dropping them into my code things broke.
After some detective work i discovered that the binaey is preceeded with an extra 16 longs of code.
Here's a disassembly of the code.

0000: FD601A00                  HUBSET $D
0004: FD60181F                  WAITX $C
0008: FD601C00                  HUBSET $E
000C: F607F040                  MOV PTRA,#$40
0010: F607F200                  MOV PTRB,#$0
0014: FCD8080F                  REP #$4,$F
0018: FD67FE29                  SETQ2 #$1FF
001C: FB040161                  RDLONG $0,PTRA++
0020: FD67FE29                  SETQ2 #$1FF
0024: FC6401E1                  WRLONG $0,PTRB++
0028: 00000000                  NOP 
002C: FCEC0000                  COGINIT #$0,#$0
0030: 00030D40            _RET_ ROR $186,$140
0034: 01000708            _RET_ ADD $3,$108
0038: 0100070B            _RET_ ADD $3,$10B
003C: 00000001            _RET_ ROR $0,$1

I'm assuming this is relates to Chip's debug option.
Anyhow just a heads up so others don't get caught out.

Oz

macca

That code is the clock_setter.spin2 prefix introduced with PNut sometime ago (not sure when v36 or v37), should not do any harm.
See somewhere in the PNut discussion https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/171196/pnut-spin2-latest-version-v39-parameterization-bug-fixed-no-more-automatic-file-spewing

ozpropdev

@macca
In my case it does a lot of harm.
It changes my clock settings, and shuffles hub ram then kills my already running cog #0.

Now i am aware of it, my custom loader strips it away.
Oz

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Wuerfel_21

The clocksetter only gets prepended when compiling an ASM-only file in non-debug mode. It really is quite silly.

I'd recommend just using flexspin for ASM projects. It doesn't do the clock setter thing and has some extra features I consider essential.

macca

@ozpropdev said:
In my case it does a lot of harm.
It changes my clock settings, and shuffles hub ram then kills my already running cog #0.

Now i am aware of it, my custom loader strips it away.

@Wuerfel_21 said:
I'd recommend just using flexspin for ASM projects. It doesn't do the clock setter thing and has some extra features I consider essential.

As a side note, with a bit of self-promotion, with my Spin Tools IDE the clock setter prefix is optional.

ozpropdev

BTW Pnut supports DEBUG but does not include the clpck setter patch in its binary file.
That works for me.