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

[ron minnich]

yeah I know, but my vague memory is that the 7-bit bytes started to be
preferred. But yeah, it's probably a co-inky-dink, as the three stooges
would say.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 12:48 PM Tom Lyon <pugs78 at gmail.com> wrote:

> But they had RADIX 50, which would've allowed global.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_RADIX_50
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 12:44 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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