[Oberon] maxCode limit in ORG

[Joerg]

Chuck

It‘s indeed arbitrary. Keep in mind: it is in words. So, 8000 means ~32 kByte.
It’s generally a bad practice to generate modules bigger than 32 kByte. Altough there might be special cases where a split in several modules is not wanted or generates „strange“ module borders.

Indeed on my FPGA system with 15MB of memory and 1MB for color display, I could increase this limit, but I did not.

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Jörg

> Am 06.04.2021 um 17:27 schrieb Charles Perkins <chuck at kuracali.com>:
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> Hi All --
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> In Project Oberon's compiler source code, in ORG.Mod the 'maxCode=8000' constant definition limits how much code a single module can contain.  Is this an arbitrary limit or may it be relaxed in some cases?
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> My first inclination that it is an arbitrary limit (in recognition of the small amount of memory available to the compiler in the original FPGA RISC system) is that it is a decimal rather than a hexadecimal value... if the limit were 8000H then I would think that we are concerned about not exceeding 16-bit signed value offsets or something like that.
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> I imagine we do have actual non-arbitrary limits on how large a single module's code can get, based on PC relative addressing. If the maxCode constant is indeed arbitrary and if it were relaxed, what maximum value could it take?
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> Many thanks,
> Chuck
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