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From: jkg@gatech.edu (Jim Greenlee)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Motorola delimiters (was: Intel Assembly Language)
Message-ID: <18022@gatech.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 89 00:06:47 GMT
References: <993@wpi.wpi.edu> <13261@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: jkg@gatech.UUCP (Jim Greenlee)
Followup-To: comp.lang.misc
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <13261@steinmetz.ge.com> you write:
>Does Motorola really use * for a comment??

Yes, but only if it appears as the first character in a line. Comments
at the end of a line are delimited by whitespace after the operands.

What's worse is that Motorola standard assembler syntax also uses '*'
to denote the current value of the Instruction Location Counter:

		org	1000
	Here	equ	*	; "Here" now has the value 1000

Can you say "overloaded operator"? I knew you could :-).

						Jim Greenlee
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Jim Greenlee - Instructor, School of ICS, Georgia Tech     jkg@gatech.edu

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