Where are the NON extended asm docs?

dw limegreensocks@yahoo.com
Thu May 9 09:14:00 GMT 2013


Hey Andrew, thanks for the response.

>
>> I've been working on re-writing the docs for extended-asm.  However, as
>> bad as the extended-asm docs are, the NON extended asm docs (or would
>> that be "basic asm"?) appear to be completely missing.  Does anyone have
>> a link to the basic asm docs (even an old version)?
> They're just passed through to the assembler AFAIK, so there's not much to
> document.
Mostly that's true.

While I have some general questions I'm still working on, mostly what I 
seem to be finding is all the things that don't work or just aren't safe 
with basic asm, sometimes in non-obvious ways.  Makes finding 
non-trivial samples a challenge.  Worse, my docs for basic asm (almost) 
consist of "for safe and maintainable code, don't use basic, always use 
extended."  Which says to me I simply haven't learned enough yet to 
write this topic.

I'm going to experiment and read a bit more, but unless inspiration 
strikes (or links and samples appear), I spose I'll just have to post my 
observations here and if they're wrong, people can shoot them down.  I 
just hate getting shot down.  But sometimes that's what you need to do 
to learn.

dw



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