[TUHS] Query on PDP-11 assembly

Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com
Thu May 1 03:00:06 AEST 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:53:52AM -0500, Milo Velimirovic wrote:
> A subprogram using this calling convention would look something like  
> this:
> 
> questf:	mov (r5)+,r0
> 	/ play with string pointed to by r0.
> 	rts r5

It warms my heart to see pdp-11 assembly again.  What a pleasant instruction
set.  m68k was close but already starting to get weird and x86 is the pits.
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