[TUHS] .globl directive -- is this a 35-bit constant?

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Fri Mar 29 05:44:31 AEST 2024


ACPI has 4-byte identifiers (guess why!), but I just wondered, writing some
assembly:
is it globl, not global, or glbl, because globl would be a one-word
constant on the PDP-10 (5 7-bit bytes)?

Not entirely off track, netbsd at some point (still does?) ran on the
PDP-10.
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