COLOR() doesn't always work as expected

[billkendrick]

The COLOR() function, available to the PRINT command, does not always seem to work. In this example, a numeric variable and a string containing some digits are both modified as expected, but a string containing only "!" remains as-is (in GRAPHICS 2, as yellow text; in GRAPHICS 0 text window, as non-inverse-video text).

graphics(2)
S=1234

print #6,"SCORE: "; COLOR(32) S
print "SCORE: "; COLOR(128) S

print #6,"TEST"; COLOR(32) "!"
print "TEST"; COLOR(128) "!"

print #6,"TEST"; COLOR(32) "123"
print "TEST"; COLOR(128) "123"

while 1
wend

[billkendrick]

It seems strings under three characters are not affected by the preceding COLOR() call.

graphics(1)

for j = 0 to 3
  if j=0 then i=0
  if j=1 then i=32
  if j=2 then i=128
  if j=3 then i=160
  print #6,"COLOR(";i;"): "; COLOR(i); "A"
  print #6,"COLOR(";i;"): "; COLOR(i); "AB"
  print #6,"COLOR(";i;"): "; COLOR(i); "ABC"
  print #6,"COLOR(";i;"): "; COLOR(i); "ABCD"
next

while 1
wend

[dmsc]

Hi!

This was a problem with the optimizer in the cross compiler, fixed now, thank you!