Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 18:20:48 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix + asm Message-ID: <199605270120.SAA00392@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 May 1996 10:02:55 %2B0930." <199605270032.KAA23163@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> 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 > <mnem> <src>,<dst>, and I suspect that gas' origins lie more in that > direction... How about moving this sort discussion to who-gives-a-shit mailing list Amancio
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