From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 26 17:17:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA20093 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 May 1996 17:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA20072 for ; Sun, 26 May 1996 17:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA23163; Mon, 27 May 1996 10:02:56 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605270032.KAA23163@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: unix + asm To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 10:02:55 +0930 (CST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3585.833135278@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 26, 96 06:27:58 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > > > Depends on your point of view, of course. For the Zilog `ld' > > mnemonic, ``ld dst, src'' sounds more reasonable to me (``load the dst > > with src.''). For the Intel `mov' mnemonic, the other way round seems > > better suited (``move src into dst.''). > > Principle of least asstonishment strikes again! I agree! How about tracking history a bit more? PDP/68K assembly syntax is all ,, and I suspect that gas' origins lie more in that direction... > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[