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From: john gilmore
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:58

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David Cole writes:

>Ben: The chance of error can be reduced *substantially* for large zaps (now
>matter what addressing method you prefer) if you'd use an ASM2ZAP program:
>a tool that scrapes a "PRINT ON,GEN,DATA" listing and produces zap
>statements based on the extracted machine code.

and he is quite right.

Moreover, Binyamin/Ben need not do any of the hand calculations he mentions.
I almost never write code of any kind that is not within a macro definition,
but this
is my habit and need not be his: SETA statements are and have long been
available
in open code for accomplishing just the sorts of calculations he mentioins.

This is also perhaps an appropriate location for the generic comment that
the contribu-
tions so far made to this thread have been curiously silent about the the
use of the
macro language.  It is not a frill; it is a uniquely powerful procedural
language embedded
in the HLASM; and a set of assembly-language coding conventions that do not
envisage
its heavy, integral use are, in my (here not so humble) opinion, all but
irrelevant.

John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721
USA

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