SP1: hang in sp1_IterateSprChar()

[derekfountain]

I've been playing with sp1_IterateSprChar() in the context of updating colour in my sprite. I think I'm on top of it, but was puzzled by a hang I came across.

My iterator function, called via sp1_IterateSprChar() each time round the game loop, contains this:

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    if( ++c->attr == INK_WHITE )
      c->attr = INK_BLUE;

which cycles the colours each refresh. It works fine except when the sprite is stationary because the character cells aren't invalidated. OK, so I added:

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     sp1_InvUpdateStruct(c->update);

but that causes the program to hang.

I found the answer: use sp1_IterateUpdateSpr(), where the iterator function takes a struct sp1_update *u and the character cells can be invalidated with

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sp1_InvUpdateStruct(u);

So all is well, but is there a reason it's not allowed to invalidate the update struct from inside the sp1_IterateSprChar() function?

[alvin]

If you look at the sp1 header for struct sp1_cs:

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struct sp1_cs {                       // "char structs" - 24 bytes - Every sprite is broken into pieces fitting into a tile, each of which is described by one of these

   struct sp1_cs     *next_in_spr;    // +0  BIG ENDIAN ; next sprite char within same sprite in row major order (MSB = 0 if none)

   struct sp1_update *update;         // +2  BIG ENDIAN ; tile this sprite char currently occupies (MSB = 0 if none)

"update" is big endian and a leading 0 indicates the sprite character is not currently displayed.

So correct code might be something like this:

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#include <intrinsic.h>

if (*(unsigned char *p = (unsigned char *)c->update))
{
   // valid update struct
   sp1_InvUpdateStruct((void*)intrinsic_swap_endian_16((unsigned int)p));
}

[derekfountain]

That works, thanks.

I'd spotted the MSB of 0 meaning "not displayed". I took that check out of the example in my post for clarity. But I'd completely forgotten the Z80 is little endian. }