[Oberon] Oberon-07 - SYSTEM.MSET

[Joerg]

In my point of view it’s not worth the effort as eg

SYSTEM.PUT(Display.Base, 0BABEFACEH);
SYSTEM.COPY(
  Display.Base, Display.Base+4, 24575
);

fills the b/w screen with an arbitrary word.

br
Jörg

> Am 25.06.2020 um 16:20 schrieb Tomas Kral <thomas.kral at email.cz>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just thinking, as part of en exercise, we could enrich pseudo module
> SYSTEM.
> 
> We have COPY command, we could add a complementing MSET, filling a
> memory block with arbitrary word.
> 
> Similarly we have memset(), memcpy() on linux, and I have seen lately a
> habit in mimicking some ux* commands in Oberon :-)
> 
> SYSTEM.MSET (choosing other name not to imply Oberon SET{})
> 
> Can it be useful in some low level programming, I know NEW() fills block
> with NIL (0), but sometimes we need -1, or even other?
> 
> Everything is word aligned and padded by compiler, so MSET could go by
> words.
> 
> Bad idea?
> 
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> Tomas Kral <thomas.kral at email.cz>
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