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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: JMP/JML revisited...
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Date: 17 May 89 03:30:36 GMT
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farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes:
>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.  :-)  Again, I would hope not.  Optimizing assemblers aren't for me; if
>>I enter something, I *mean* that something.  And a mod from JMP to BRL,
>>although it seems harmless, will actually cause problems if you use
>>self-modifying code.
>
>	WRONG! Like you, I *mean* what I say.  I said a good assembler will
>	change a JSR to a JSL *if* the destination address requires it!
>	Please don't put words into other peoples mouths just to make your
>	point.

Cary, was it you that I was referring to?  If I remember correctly (and I
might not), your comment was part of a JMP/BRL conversation.  I think it's
possible that you meant to say JSR/JSL and instead said JMP/JML.  Or, I was
confused and *thought* you were talking about JMP/JML, in which case I
apologize profusely and can't imagine what came over me that day.  (I might
not remember everything, but I rarely misread a message.  Unfortunately, I
don't have a copy of the original message and can't say either way for sure.)

And to clarify a point, as soon as I understood that the conversation was
actually about JMP/BRL instead of JMP/JML (with the author having stated that
he actually *did* mean BRL and not JML), I also thought I understood a point
about the (alleged?) JMP/JML conversation, and foolishly attempted to respond
without a copy of the original message at my disposal.  Always a risky thing
to do.

I did not attempt to put words into your mouth.  One of us was confused, and
as I said, I apologize if it was me.  But neither should you attempt to put
motives into my expressions.  I wasn't disfiguring what you said to make some
imagined or real point.

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