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On 25/08/10 18:26, John wrote:
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 17:07 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:I think you started assembler with a [ character somewhere, but it's been many years...I've a sneaky feeling you are right on that, there was something to mark sections of assembler.
Assembly code was placed between square brackets. Usually you'd stick it inside a FOR loop to run two passes to allow the addresses of forward labels to be calculated on the first pass and creating the machine code on the second. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq