[stella] Question about DASM

[Peter H. Fröhlich]

Hi all,

On Mar 28, 2008, at 4:29 AM, mathys66 at bluewin.ch wrote:

> It's using the wrong argument for the fill value. If you assemble  
> the piece of code below you'll find that the memory
> is filled with 0x17 (=23), which is the alignment value. That's why  
> you're seeing all zeroes inserted when you align to
> a 256 byte boundary - the fill value is in this case 256 & 255 == 0.

Ah, Thomas is fast! :-) When I looked at the code, I thought this  
might be the case, but since I didn't understand the SYMBOL data  
structure yet, I wasn't sure. :-/ Good job! I'll make a note of this  
to fix later.

Cheers,
Peter
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