Searching Forums -two items

Is it possible to search the Forum – for two items
- ie Smith and Jones?

The search does a phrase search looking the two words “smith” & “jones” following each other with nothing in-between, so very limiting.

Use google with site:www.riscosopen.org/forum smith jones
if you want to search just “Community Support” then you will see that URL at the top of this page starts:
www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/11/
1=announce
…
11=Community Support
12=Aldershot

so use:
site:www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/11/ smith book

I did think about setting up a webpage with search boxes for particular forums but I find relevant postings for what I look for are often not in the forum I think most likely.

I thought I read ages ago that it was a regex, so I tried /^(?=.*\GPL\b)(?=.*\licence\b).*$/m, but no such luck…

Thanks Chris E. – found what I was looking for.

Is there anyway of searching Google Groups from RO?

RO FireFox sort of worked.

As a extra – what is required in the regs before _fprintf (SharedCLib) is called?

R1 = Adr of msg.
Any others need setting up.
I’m getting no text output.

[correction – changed _printf to _fprintf]

I’m at work so can’t help, however looking at the source should give you some clues. Have you set up the C environment? (R8? R12? something like that)

The message should be in R0, not R1. Extra arguments go in R1-R3, and anything beyond that needs to be passed on the stack.

If your assembler is being called from C then there shouldn’t be anything extra that you need to set up – although you might need to make sure R10 (stack limit) and R11 (frame pointer) are correct.

Rick even has a handy APCS guide on his website ;-) http://www.heyrick.co.uk/assembler/apcsintro.html

When you just run ‘SoftLoad’ – you get the help msg + a error msg.
’Return code too large – it seems to come about :-

Using Ricks module ‘BreakAid’.
***********
ADR  R1,|L0000A6BC.String| ; → String: "SoftLoad 1.18 [28 etc…
     BL   |_fprintf|
     MOV  R0,R8    r8= &101 (257)
     BL  |exit|
********
Using Rick’s mod – dropping r8 down to 255 – error msg is removed.
***********
Back to what I was doing.

I have tacked on StubsG to ‘Softload’ – so the 32bit C doesn’t have to be loaded to go into RO5.xx.

Seems to work ok loading RO5 – but there is no help msg out – on running softload – just ‘Return code too large’.

Trying to work out why no help msg – from ‘SoftLoad’..

Note:-

Changing to swi OS_Write0 and ptr to r0 – help msg generated.

The source for that bit of code is here

If you’ve ripped the CLib stubs out of the binary and replaced them with SubsG then I’d guess that it’s failing because the location of “stderr” is different between the two stub versions.

Thanks for your help/ptrs.
Two things here.

First
Replacing the _fprintf by _printf and using R0 for ptr – seems to work.
From what you say – the _fprint output is going somewhere else instead of the screen.
How to find out where?

The second is the error msg -: ‘Return code too large’.
Seems to effect – most ‘SoftLoad’ versions.

Seems to be comming from CLib |exit|
value of 255 seems ok – 257 too large.

Is the value 275 arbitrary?

From the source -

#define ErrorReturnCode 257

Changing two instructions – in the latest version – 257 down to 255 removes the error ‘Return code too large’.

Just interested in where the text is going.

Just fired up !CC – moths everywhere.

Dragged the ‘C’ source file onto it – ohh – great list of errors/warnings.

Thats after putting the code in a ‘c’ directory – it just barfed at just a file by itself.

Any pointers to where a copy of these files are.

#include “Global/OSEntries.h”
#include “Global/OSRSI6.h”

Do you not need to have set the build environment up first, using Builder, so that all the required headers exist in useful places? Have a look at the info in

https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Build%20FAQ

along with

https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Beginner’s%20guide%20to%20ROM%20builds
https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/How%20to%20build%20RISC%20OS
https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Builder

#include “Global/OSEntries.h”
#include “Global/OSRSI6.h”
Any offers of a download of the above two files?

Think I have found the ‘little blimmer’ in my code a pointer mistake.
Now prints using _fprintf.

Anyone want to try it out ‘Softload’ with a RPC (uses StubG)?

No need for Softload to check for a CLib – and Softload seems ok to run from the !Run file.
Seems no real need for ‘Prompt’ or ‘Loader’ files.

Not really needed with R/Sqrl and family – there is a Windows Dir called ‘Chunks’ – which you can place 26/32bit modules in (ie Clib).

If running a RO5.xx – the 26bits versions are not loaded -as with hardware podule code.