Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!apple!mattd
From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: JMP/JML revisited...
Message-ID: <30516@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 May 89 19:29:22 GMT
References: <1135@orbit.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1135@orbit.UUCP> shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley) writes:
>Someone mentioned that a good assembler would change JMP to BRL during the
>assembly.  (Actually, he said it would change JMP to JML, but we know what he
>meant.  :-)

No, I think he actually meant what he said.  The point was that any assembler
worth it's salt is not so picky as to refuse to generate a long jump instruction
(usually abbreviated JML) if you force long addressing on a JMP.  In other
words, a good assembler should generate the same code for JMP >LongOffset as it
would for JML LongOffset.

(Now don't confuse my use of "offset" up there with thinking I really mean
"branch".  I mean "jump".  I'm just testing y'all.)
 
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