[Coco] NitrOS9 and 6309 code

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Fri May 31 23:05:59 EDT 2019


On Friday 31 May 2019 09:21:31 pm L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

> And it should report an error unique to that situation, so that the
> user immediately knows what is wrong. Not “Bad module header”, which
> covers multiple circumstances.
>
However, it is in fact a bad module header as the parity byte was not 
corrected, the crc if it ever made it to that check, would be bad too.
Besides, I think every error code over 200 available has already been 
used.

> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
> > On May 31, 2019, at 5:53 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > On May 31, 2019, at 6:44 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> 
wrote:
> >> Scratching thinning hair. Since both branches goto the same place,
> >> the real question is whats next after the 2nd failed beq?  Thats
> >> the interesting bit here.
> >
> > And is that different for 6809 kernel? A 6309 kernel should be able
> > to run both, but a 6809 should fail on 6309 code.
> >
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