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Re: Basic compiler



On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Paul Schlyter wrote:

Also, since Applesoft has no integer arithmetic (all arithmetic is
done in floating-point in Applesoft), there isn't much you can inline
when compiling Applesoft to 6502 machine code -- unless you want a
REALLY bloated Applesoft program, where each and every arithmetic
operation would take some 500 bytes of machine code!  With such
bloated code, you wouldn't be able to do much within 48K of memory.

I thought fpbasic had the % variable type (16-bit signed integer)?

-uso.