Example:
ColorzCore A FE8 -input Main.event -output HACK.gba -startOffset 0xB2A610
(this, of course, assumes that support for the -input <file> syntax (as opposed to -input:<file>) is implemented).
The -startOffset <offset> option would set the initial value of CURRENTOFFSET/whatever to <offset>, instead of the default 0.
This would have a mostly two advantageous effect (that come to my mind):
- Allows tools that call EA externally for installing small chunks of events (such as FEBuilder) to not have to use workarounds through generating an "installer" file.
- Waay in the future, when we'll consider outputting objects/asm in addition to raw binary, since
ORG FreeSpace shouldn't be a thing anymore, it will allow us to properly differentiate hooks (sections that need to go at specific fixed offsets; maybe we could encode those with special names and/or just throw errors since those shouldn't really exists in standard relocatable objects anyway) and regular relocatable data (.text/.rodata-like sections).
🤔 All things considered that's actually not that potentially useful, but given that the amount of effort that would go into implementing such feature is probably fairly small I think it won't hurt to have it anyway at some point.
Example:
(this, of course, assumes that support for the
-input <file>syntax (as opposed to-input:<file>) is implemented).The
-startOffset <offset>option would set the initial value ofCURRENTOFFSET/whatever to<offset>, instead of the default 0.This would have a mostly two advantageous effect (that come to my mind):
ORG FreeSpaceshouldn't be a thing anymore, it will allow us to properly differentiate hooks (sections that need to go at specific fixed offsets; maybe we could encode those with special namesand/or just throw errors since those shouldn't really exists in standard relocatable objects anyway) and regular relocatable data (.text/.rodata-like sections).🤔 All things considered that's actually not that potentially useful, but given that the amount of effort that would go into implementing such feature is probably fairly small I think it won't hurt to have it anyway at some point.