The BBC and Master Computer Public Domain Library

9060 '=' Return from a Function Call (FN)

Submitted by Steve Fewell

Description:

If the 6502 Stack pointer address is more than or equal to #&FC (i.e. Stack physical address &01FC), then a
subroutine is not currently active, as when a subroutine is called, 4 bytes are pushed to the 6502 stack [Those
bytes are as follows: 1) the Keyword token for either FN or PROC (1 byte); 2) the current program location and offset
(&0A-&0C) (3 bytes)], so issue 'No FN' error.

If the first byte pushed to the 6502 stack (at address &01FF) is not the FN-Keyword token (#&A4), then the most
recent subroutine called is not a FuNction (it must be a PROCedure instead), so issue 'No FN' error.

Otherwise, we have correctly found the end of the Function definition, so call routine &9D2F to set BASIC text
pointer B to BASIC text pointer A location and obtain the value of the expression following the equals '=' character;
and jump to routine &9B91 to set A to X (the next character after the expression) and check that the '='-statement
is valid (and is followed by either a carriage return, ELSE-token or ':' character) and to return (RTS) to the code within
the Call Subroutine routine (at address &B08C) to process the return from the subroutine call and handle the transfer
of program control, and the Function return value, back to the statement following the Function call (FN) expression.

Disassembly for the '=' Return from a Function Call routine