Whoops, turns out that the build has been broken on TASM32 version 5.3
(the one in the DevKit) ever since 7897bf1. In contrast to version 5.0
(which I use for my development), 5.3 actually defines 32-bit segments
if you specify a .386 CPU before using .MODEL.
That might have been the reason for the .286 workaround all along?
Turns out there's the USE16 modifier, which makes this much more
explicit than switching CPUs.
> assigning to the DI register immediately before a CALL
Yeah, no amount of comma operator trickery can get *that* out of this
compiler. Also, these TH05 .PI functions are the only place in PC-98
Touhou with a `IMUL DI, imm8` instruction, which is impossible to get
out of Turbo C++'s built-in assembler.
Well, at least the `if` branches decompile somewhat nicely.
Part of P0134, funded by [Anonymous].
… especially because this one *is* actually undecompilable. Reason:
Base pointer assignment to BX, before saving the SI register on the
stack.
Part of P0134, funded by [Anonymous].
Well, it *would* have been decompilable, but that ridiculous placement
of the nullptr assignment would have forced the entire function call to
be spelled out in inline ASM, verbatim. No amount of comma operator
trickery would have generated the same instructions either. And for a
function this small and obvious in what its decompilation *should* be,
it really defeated the purpose of adding a separate translation unit…
Part of P0134, funded by [Anonymous].
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