WDC 65C02 STZ issue

[munsie]

Hello --

While testing against my in development 65C02 core, I noticed that the STZ opcode tests have no way of knowing if the zero was actually written if you are ignoring the memory read/write cycles due to the memory being initialized to zero already. Here is an example test:

{ "name": "64 eb 28", "initial": { "pc": 43470, "s": 126, "a": 172, "x": 181, "y": 204, "p": 45, "ram": [ [43470, 100], [43471, 235], [43472, 40]]}, "final": { "pc": 43472, "s": 126, "a": 172, "x": 181, "y": 204, "p": 45, "ram": [ [235, 0], [43470, 100], [43471, 235], [43472, 40]]}, "cycles": [ [43470, 100, "read"], [43471, 235, "read"], [235, 0, "write"]] },

In this example, the final values of memory do include memory address 235 being set to 0. But the initial RAM values do not initialize it to anything besides 0. I was able to fool the test in this case by just reading the zero page address and doing nothing, which is definitely not a valid way of implementing this instruction.

For these instructions, can an initial value that is non-zero be specified in the RAM location the STZ opcode is being tested on? I can also work around this by randomizing the contents of my RAM before running tests, but this means the testing is non-deterministic and will also take longer to run due to initializing 64KB of memory to random values for each test.

Thanks!