Re: Assembly coding guidelines

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From: Paul Hanrahan
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 18:25

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Continuing to the next line is useful but not something that should be done
often.

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At 09:39 -0400 on 09/03/2005, Paul Hanrahan wrote about Re: Assembly coding
guidelines:

>What I found the most annoying about coding assembler was the comments.
>The area for a sequence number and then a code to identify the
>programmer digs into available space for comments.  Using the comment
>line for change management identification tied back to a change log at
>the top of the program in a flower box is a good thing but then with
>extended opcodes the space on a line is reduced.
>
>I like having a programmer id on each line of code for root cause
>analysis but hate giving up space for line comments.

Throw an "*" in column 72 and you have the next line for more comment text.
As an alternative, I often throw an "*" into column 1 and continue my
comment on that line in column 36 (My Start of Comment location).

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