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Does anyone know if at some point Minerva changed the handling of printing strings to a channel, by converting a IO_SSTRG into a sequence of IO_SBYTE's

I have a problem with a program that prints to a channel, who's device driver does not support IO_SBYTE, but does support IO_SSTRG. The program works in JS and Minerva v1.89, but in Minerva v1.97 I get a 'not implemented' error.

I have tried looking in the Minerva source code, And I think it does, But I may be reading it wrong, or looking in the wrong place. I also looked at the Minerva versions document on Dilwyn's site, But could not see a mention of it being changed.

Hi Martin,

Minerva prints strings (and most other arguments as strings (see the sstrg routine in print_asm).

It does, however, print characters like newlines and tabs, as well as separating spaces using io_sbyte (through the print_1 routine in print_asm).
Should actually only end up in io_sstrg.
(Note the missing semicolon)
Would end up in io_sstrg (for "Hello") and io_sbyte (for the trailing NL)

Tobias

Thanks for that. That will probably account for my 'not implemented' errors.

I was just worried that one of my machine code routines had left a landmine somewhere in the system, that PRINT was stepping on in Minerva 1.97