[COFF] machine code translation,as mental architecture models

Douglas McIlroy douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu
Sun Jul 14 08:00:19 AEST 2024


> the DEC PDP-1 MACRO assembler manual says that a macro call
> is expanded by copying the *sequence of 'storage words' and
> advancing the current location (.) for each word copied*

> I am quite surprised.

I am, too. It seems that expansion is not recursive. And that it can only
allocate storage word by word, not in larger blocks.

Doug
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