Devpac keeps Crashing??

Devpac occasionally crashes when I try to assemble code. It will get to the point of telling me that there are no errors and the mouse will freeze, the powerlight flash, at which point it restarts to tell me a guru meditation error message. An example of the code I might type in is as such;

PROG:    MOVEM.L    VALUE1,D0-D3
         ADD.L      D3,D1
         ADDX.L     D2,D0
         MOVEM.L    D0-D1,RESULT
         RTS
VALUE1:  DS.L 2
VALUE2:  DS.L 2
RESULT:  DS.L 2
         END        PGM_4_7

This code for example is from a book teaching assembly language; it is adding together 2 64bit numbers.

Any ideas of whats wrong would be appreciated. I am using Devpac v.3 (a pirated version I think). Could it be a bad disk image? bad memory? bad program? Again, any help appreciated.

Ben Pazolli

[StingRay]

code looks ok, nothing wrong with it. might be devpac runs out of stack when assembling or something, try to increase stacksize before starting devpac, may help.

[Jherek Carnelia]

The code runs fine from devpac when I try it - from WinUAE.

I have that book, and I noticed from the examples I have on disk that I INCLUDE'd misc/easystart.i at the beginning of my code. It was a very long time ago that I was using it, but I seem to remember that it was something about returning to the OS that caused the intermittent crashes (could be I'm totally wrong though ).

Maybe using the include (supplied on the Devpac disks) would help...

[Galahad/FLT]

When you return to the OS, you should terminate the end of your routine before the RTS with a moveq #0,d0, this tells the OS there were no errors to report, as error handling numbers are put into D0.

Secondly, are you using Master Devpac by any chance? If so, junk it, its prone to crashes, its a hacked version with built in calculator and its shit.

[hitchhikr]

As i recall it was a bug in the official devpac 3 package itself.

If you own a PC or a Mac you should assemble your program with vasm/vlink instead, it'll be much faster.

[musashi5150]

Originally Posted by hitchhikr

As i recall it was a bug in the official devpac 3 package itself.

I've been using 3.18 for years and it's always been good as gold.

[Photon]

Ofc it crashes. Devpac is lame Seka is fame, don't you know?

Try to get the exact Devpac version and upgrade if possible. Increasing your stacksize may help, since it is *while assembling* it happens.

[hitchhikr]

It depends on the version, there was 2 shipped: one for 1.x and one for 2.x and upward, the first one doesn't like anything else than 1.x os.

The latest version (v3.18 i think but others behave just as bad) doesn't like the 2.04 os at all (and needs v37 libraries so no go on 1.x systems).

[AlfaRomeo]

Originally Posted by bpazolli

This code for example is from a book teaching assembly language; it is adding together 2 64bit numbers.

Hi, can you tell me a good book to lern Amiga Assembly?
Thanks in Advance

[TCD]

Hi AlfaRomeo,

for a start you could have a look here : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=21516

[musashi5150]

I learnt 68000 coding from "68000 Assembly Language" by Lance Leventhal (and some other dudes). Not related to the Amiga at all of course, but I thought it was very well written. I also liked it because it was free - stolen from my college library

[AlfaRomeo]

Thanks for your tips guys

Originally Posted by AlfaRomeo

Hi, can you tell me a good book to lern Amiga Assembly?

It's the same book as the guy that posted above. '68000 Assembly Language Programming' by Gerry Kane, Doug Hawkins, Lance Leventhal. It is not great for amiga assembly though, you have to change the programs around to make them all relative addressing; so that they can be placed anywhere. Also like the guy above I got it from my University Library (UWA) but unlike him I intend on returning it.

Ben Pazolli

[musashi5150]

Originally Posted by bpazolli

I got it from my University Library (UWA) but unlike him I intend on returning it.

Well... I couldn't return it after I damaged the book removing the security tag could I?

[AlfaRomeo]

Thanks bpazolli

Anyone knows where can I get the DevPac includes for WB 3.9 ?(I don´t know which version they are)