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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Intel Assembly Language (Yuk!)
Message-ID: <13261@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 27 Feb 89 15:51:28 GMT
References: <993@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <993@wpi.wpi.edu> jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) writes:
| 
| Warning:  This is a (silly) flame

| 3 - Every Motorola programmer knows that the proper comment introducer is
|     '*' not ';'

  Excuse me? Does that mean there's no constant multiply??

For example:
	bufsiz	equ	22
	...
		mov	al,5*bufsize	; how in hell can * be a comment

Does Motorola really use * for a comment??
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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