[Coco] NitrOS-9 Level2 and 6309 language label

[L. Curtis Boyle]

I am still out of town, but can confirm that the 6309 version of grfdrv has a ton of 6309 only code in it. Amongst the most of any module. 

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> On Jun 8, 2019, at 9:07 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> 
> Is there in fact, any 6309 code in grfdrv? I do not personally know, 
> never haveing waded around in it. Theres also a small chance a 
> conditional is wrong and any 6309 code erroniously assembles to a 
> forever loop, or even a stack cleanup is wrong when the Obj6309 is in 
> effect. That would probably take a carefull audit, krn4, and a ream of 
> paper to keep notes on. I don't even know if the src would fit in a #56k 
> tsedit buffer.  rbf.mn won't if you leave enough comments in it to tell 
> you whats its doing.  There were times, when I was putting the cluster 
> stuff back in that K.D. took out & had the audacity to call it a 
> Christmas present. He took it out so we couldn't go beyond a 132 
> megabyte disk, when I'd have to go back and take out 200 bytes of 
> comments so I could add enough more comments to keep track of what I was 
> doing.  The lack of comments in rbf.mn today wasn't because I wanted to 
> keep it a secret, but because I was down to 20 or fewer bytes of working 
> room in "vi"s 56k buffer. I did not have anything but the coco3 to do 
> that work with back then.
> 
> Later I had a big box amiga, and ced could handle bigger files, but it 
> wasn't stable so I didn't ever trust it to work on nitros9. It wasn't 
> until I made the jump to linux that editors with gigabyte buffers were 
> available. But that was a decade and change later when memory was down 
> to 5% of its former cost.
> 
> Do we even have the srcs for grfdrv?  Or are they from disasm?
> Looks  like original.  Or does in my 2016 copy.
> 
> Observations; lots of 6309 codes but maybe there are some ELSE's missing?
> 
> IFNE H6309's    256
> ELSE's        247
> ENDC's        256
> 
> So theoretically, there are  9 places where there is no 6809 code. That 
> seems odd.
> 
> Bears rechecking for missing else's?  Since the count of IFNE H6309's 
> matches the count of ENDC's, it stands to reason that there should also 
> be an equal number of ELSE's in order to have the 6809 stuff segregated.  
> The code is obviously going to change according to the H6309 setting. 
> And right at the top of the file, there is nothing to set ty/la to 
> Obj6309.  Shouldn't that be decided in the Makefile and fixed by a 
> conditional in the .asm file?
> 
> Now I could also be totally wrong because the newest version I have here 
> is now 2 years old.
> 
> I have a script that will download lwtools, toolshed and nitros9, 
> building them from fresh pulls of the repo's. Has anything been changed 
> like repo's moved etc, that would prevent me from making a fresh copy of 
> everything today? 
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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