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From: ade@pucc-i (D. Kakarigi)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: How does the inline() work in TURBO PASCAL ?
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Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 13:19:09 EST
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In article <1172@princeton.UUCP> wei@princeton.UUCP (P Wei) writes:
>In my previous post, I mistyped inline($b8/$01/$cd/$7e); instead of
>Am I wrong about the inline() statement ? I assume it is a statement informing
>the complier and does nothing on the stack (it doesn't push its "argument" onto
>the stack---i.e. the first code executing at run time is $B8).
>Am I right????
>HP Wei   (wei@princeton)

The first code of your inline statement will be $B8, but when your procedure
is called, it does something like:
         PUSH      BP
         MOV       BP,SP
before it gets to $B8, so you do have an extra word on the stack!