Re: assembly and to write a procedure

From: Phil Carmody (thefatphil_demunged_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 07/26/04 

Date: 26 Jul 2004 20:36:51 +0300

beta <beta@s.l> writes:

> On 25 Jul 2004 22:22:13 -0700, johnnyb@eskimo.com wrote:
> >For me, assembly language procedures spend most of the time in the
> >debugger. For me, assembly language is more prone to completely stupid
> >errors than other languages, but less prone to large-scale errors. The
> >reason being that saying %ecx when you meant %edx can happen easily,
>
> worse %ebx ...and %edx
> the names are too similar

Visually, yes.

However, c & d are next to each other on the keyboard though.
esi & edi have s & d next to each other too.

I've occasionally forgotten whether my datum was in edi or edx,
which is embarassing.

Phil 

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