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Article #6300Re: Motorola delimiters (was: Intel Assembly Language)
From: Neil Webber
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1989 00:10
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1989 00:10
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In article <18022@gatech.edu> jkg@gatech.UUCP (Jim Greenlee) writes:
>In article <13261@steinmetz.ge.com> you write:
>>Does Motorola really use * for a comment??
>
>Yes, but only if it appears as the first character in a line. Comments
>at the end of a line are delimited by whitespace after the operands.
Of course, the assembler's opinion on what constitutes whitespace "after"
the operands may not agree with yours:
1 00000002 A: EQU 2
2 00000004 B: EQU 4
3 00000002 APLUSB: EQU A + B ; NOT REALLY!
4 00000006 APB: EQU A+B
A fine source of hours and hours of debugging entertainment! :-) :-)
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Neil Webber / Epoch Systems, Marlboro MA / (508) 481-3717
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!voder!pyramid!prls!philabs!linus!alliant!palladium!nw From: nw@palladium.UUCP (Neil Webber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Motorola delimiters (was: Intel Assembly Language) Summary: more flames about motorola 68k assembler Message-ID: <672@palladium.UUCP> Date: 2 Mar 89 00:10:55 GMT References: <993@wpi.wpi.edu> <13261@steinmetz.ge.com> <18022@gatech.edu> Reply-To: nw@palladium.UUCP (Neil Webber) Organization: Epoch Systems, Marlborough, MA Lines: 19