QPC2 MultiBASIC: Load SBASIC machine code function resident

[dilwyn]

And it wouldn't hurt if you don't as it apparently didn't bother anyone for the last 20 years.....

(It escapes my why someone would want to load SBASIC extensions into a daughter BASIC only - It maybe makes sense when you're developing an extension, but in "normal operation" it is likely just a good method to intensely confuse yourself)

Strangely enough, I do get asked (and usually refuse because I know what'll happen with endless support requests) to supply sources to my programs which install their extensions just in the SBASIC jobs in which they are run.

I happen to agree with you, but I know plenty who wouldn't.

It gets really confusing when people try to LRESPR system extensions like menu_rext locally into an SBASIC job and you have to explain it...

[tofro]

It gets really confusing when people try to LRESPR system extensions like menu_rext locally into an SBASIC job and you have to explain it...

But that is definitly mentioned in the manuals.....

[dilwyn]

It gets really confusing when people try to LRESPR system extensions like menu_rext locally into an SBASIC job and you have to explain it...

But that is definitly mentioned in the manuals.....

Exactly.

I make these mistakes myself from time to time. But I try to learn from them, at least.

[pjw]

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And it wouldn't hurt if you don't as it apparently didn't bother anyone for the last 20 years.....

And Ive known about it these past 20 years. Awfully sorry I never mentioned it..

(It escapes my why someone would want to load SBASIC extensions into a daughter BASIC only - It maybe makes sense when you're developing an extension, but in "normal operation" it is likely just a good method to intensely confuse yourself)

I usually test unknown, "foreign" extensions in an SBASIC daughter job. Less chance of total system meltdown. Also to check and compare, etc. During development I always test my code in a daughter SBASIC.

[ql_freak]

 
https://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.i ... dix07.html
 
says in appendix A7.2.5 Loading Toolkits into an SBASIC

"This follows exactly the same rules as on a MultiBASIC."

And this is wrong! Please change this. For me the SuperBASIC Reference Manual Online is now the reference for stuff which is not in Jan Jones SuperBASIC's Definitve Handbook.
 

[tofro]

That chapter talks about "Loading Toolkits" - And yes, you're loading toolkits into SBASIC very much the same way as you load them into multiple Minerva BASICs - via LBYTES and CALL or LRESPR. I can't see what's wrong with that.

[NormanDunbar]

If someone writes me up a text file, with all the detail of how toolkits can be loaded into whatever systems --- SBASIC/SuperBASIC/MultiBASIC/Whatever --- you need, I'll convert it to the correct format --- ReStructuredText --- for the online SuperBASIC manual and get it uploaded.

I'm wondering a I should attempt to write a small utility, not necessarily in Assembvler, to convert plain text to the desired ReStructuredText format, to make life easier for everyone?

I did write a "how to" a while back https://github.com/SinclairQL/UpdatingS ... ter/source but I don;t see a PDF there ATM, so I'll need to chec k.


Cheers,
Norm.