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From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Thanks
Message-ID: <9129@claris.com>
Date: 21 Mar 89 22:36:15 GMT
References: <27638@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <27638@apple.Apple.COM>, by mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage):
> 
>           lda temp3
>           ldx temp3+2
>           sta temp7
>           sta temp7+2
>           ^^^
> 
> Having been buried in the midst of a long string of lda/ldx/sta/stx quartets,
> I completely missed it until doing some fairly advanced debugging.  Did I
> mention that personal computers are evil?)

That's what macros are for.  :-)

	movelong temp3,temp7

On a related topic, I've never really understood why people use AX like that.
Is there really any advantage over

	lda temp3
	sta temp3+2
	lda temp7
	sta temp7+2

which is how (I think) the `movelong' I use does it.


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Scott Lindsey     |"Cold and misty morning. I heard a warning borne in the air
Claris Corp.      |    About an age of power when no one had an hour to spare"
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