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Implement atari fgetpos and fsetpos using NOTE/POINT #334

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mysterymath opened this issue Jun 2, 2024 · 6 comments
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Implement atari fgetpos and fsetpos using NOTE/POINT #334

mysterymath opened this issue Jun 2, 2024 · 6 comments
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mysterymath commented Jun 2, 2024

The Atari DOS NOTE/POINT functionality isn't expressive enough to implement fseek, since the former use sector/offset, while the latter uses byte offsets from start/end of file. It is expressive enough to implement fgetpos and fsetpos, since these operate on an opaque fpos_t value, which could be interpreted as a sector/offset pair.

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@mysterymath mysterymath changed the title Implement atari fgetpos and fsetpos using NOTE/POINT Implement atari fgetpos and fsetpos using NOTE/POINT Jun 2, 2024
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pfusik commented Jun 19, 2024

I'd like to implement this.

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pfusik commented Jun 20, 2024

How to handle FILE buffer?
NOTE will tell us sector/offset after the whole buffer we read.
Writing is easier: just flush the buffer, then NOTE.

I can only think of using NOTE at every entry of fill_buffer. The time overhead should be acceptable. Unfortunately, that grows all binaries that do not use fgetpos.
Then fsetpos does a POINT followed by skipping as many bytes as we had in the buffer. Possibly by just filling the buffer and moving the pointer.

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NOTE-ing on every fill_buffer SGTM; there's already quite a bit of stuff brought in just for standards compliance, and it shouldn't break the bank comparatively.

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pfusik commented Jun 20, 2024

I'm thinking of:

typedef struct {
    unsigned short sector;          // at the beginning of the buffer
    unsigned char offset_in_sector; // at the beginning of the buffer
    size_t offset_in_buffer;        // size_t because of setvbuf
} fpos_t;

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I'm thinking of:

typedef struct {
    unsigned short sector;          // at the beginning of the buffer
    unsigned char offset_in_sector; // at the beginning of the buffer
    size_t offset_in_buffer;        // size_t because of setvbuf
} fpos_t;

Providing a custom fpos_t type per target may be... tricky, since stdio-full.c is currently built as part of common. But code also currently assumes that it's a file offset, and that's probably not tenable long-term. Some design and experimentation work is probably prudent around this.

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pfusik commented Jun 20, 2024

Another idea (in pseudocode):

int fgetpos(FILE *stream, fpos_t *pos)
{
    if (stream->bufidx == 0)
        *pos = stream->position_at_last_fill_buffer;
    else {
        POINT(stream->position_at_last_fill_buffer);
        SKIP(stream->bufidx); // implemented as READ to buffer
        *pos = NOTE();
    }
}

This only needs 24-bit fpos_t.
For the default BUFSIZ=256 it would re-read a sector or two. But no need to do that in fsetpos.

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