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Re: [MiNT] TAS in GFA Linker

on 9/5/14, 5:01 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote:

> On 05/09/2014 22:25, Lonny Pursell a wrote:
>> This is a very interesting discussion about the TAS instruction. The GFA
>> Linker which is an extremely small program acts very strange on the FireBee.
>> I had no luck solving it the past several months. Now I find two TAS
>> instruction in there. Do you suppose this is the source of the mysterious
>> problems? Sometimes it works, sometimes not, much like a cache issue.
> 
> Sure! TAS can't work on the FireBee, it has random behavior due to the
> copy-back data cache.
>
> That should fix your problem.

Initial tests seem to indicate a stable linker now. \o/
Pierre will do more testing, but I think its solved.
Cheers!

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Lonny Pursell    http://www.bright.net/~gfabasic/