My 68000 code newbie questions

[lytron]

Hi,

I have two questions about some code of a Sega Genesis game; I have no experience with that console and that instruction set, so I expect you can answer them easily. Probably I have a few more questions in future...

... by the way, do you know any good resources for the Genesis Memory Map / Instruction Set, maybe that would spare a lot of you some silly questions. My google inqueries for that were not fruitful until now... 

1) What does the line

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movem.l d0-a1/a3-a5,-(sp)
do? Shift registers d0-a1 into a3-a5?

2) What does the line

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move.b #$7D+$80,d0
do?
Load register $80,  add #$7D, store it in d0?

Thanks alot in advance!

[Ti_]

1) saves all regs(except a2 and a6) in stack memory. ( sp=a7=stackpointer)
2) there's no such command, it  will be assembled as  "move.b #$FD,d0"

[lytron]

1) saves all regs(except a2 and a6) in stack memory. ( sp=a7=stackpointer)
2) there's no such command, it  will be assembled as  "move.b #$FD,d0"

Thank you!

2) Okay, this means "#$7D+

• $80" is a compiler command that gets calculated before assembling. And again: Thank you.

[furrykef]

I wouldn't call it a "compiler command" (besides, it'd be an assembler, not a compiler), but rather an "expression". An expression is a formula the compiler can reduce to a numeric constant during assembly. I could have something like "move #foobar*5 + 8, d0", and so long as foobar is some constant, the assembler will compute the value for you. For instance, if foobar is 5, the expression will be 5*5 + 8 = 25 + 8 = 33 (decimal), so it'd be equivalent to "move #33, d0".