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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Chill, Randy
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Date: 5 Jan 91 09:59:21 GMT
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rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:

>Those M & X bits are a big source of trouble in complex programs.

Sure they are, if you don't structure your code.

Randy, you've been railing on the '816 for architectural features that don't
tolerate sloppy coding of large projects ever since you started to post here.

What's so damn hard about modularizing your assembly code into subroutines
whose register sizes are easy to manage? Avoiding mode problems on entry and
exit is as easy as PHP/PLP.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu