Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!munnari!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!munnari.oz!jkjl
From: jkjl@munnari.oz (John Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Getting started in Assembly on the Mac (HOW?)
Message-ID: <1244@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Date: 20 Feb 89 11:39:26 GMT
References: <8902150414.AA06752@jade.berkeley.edu> <Feb.15.08.38.10.1989.18127@athos.rutgers.edu>
Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au
Reply-To: jkjl@munmurra.UUCP (John Lim)
Organization: University of Melbourne, Comp Sci Dept
Lines: 23

>In article <8902150414.AA06752@jade.berkeley.edu> DFJOHN01@ULKYVX.BITNET (GMAIL_FLAG_PERSONAL_NAME) writes:
>
>> My three main reasons for wanting to learn it are:
>>   1) To understand disassembled code.
>>   2) To understand "debugger's" language.
>>   3) To make my code run faster.
>> 
>> I have purchased all of MPW, including the Pascal & C compilers, the Assembler,
>> MacApp, SADE and TML, and the TML source code library (which is AWESOME). Can
>> you advise a soul such as mine as to how to get started with Assembly?

I suggest you compile your MPW and TML code with the output assembler
option on. This will give you a great idea of how *bad* assembler code
is written. 

But all jokes aside, it probably is a good idea to compare your HLL code
and see how the assembly lang. is generated as it will teach you
(1) and (2). Optimizing code will then come with experience.


	Good Luck !

	john