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From: hojo@cbnewsl.att.com (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: The movep instruction & a strange display
Summary: yes MWC assembler movep does it wrong
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.200747.26048@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 2 Nov 90 20:07:47 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.155603.4066@irscscm.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1990Oct31.155603.4066@irscscm.UUCP>, mlake@irscscm.UUCP (Marshall Lake) writes:
> 
> Greetings everyone.
> 
> [is] it possible that my assemblers (the only ones I have are MADMAC and the
> MWC assembler, the latter being a real trip of an assembler) do not
> handle the movep instruction correctly?  The same thing happens with
> both of the assemblers.  I've seen the same code in other programs that
> work properly.
> 
the MWC assembler gets the reg reversed (my memory) on some movep instructions.

When I disassemble a program using certain movep , when reassembled, the 
code is wrong.  I believe the registers are reversed on movep r1,r2.


Howard Johnson
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