Re: HLA v1.68 is now available

From: Randall Hyde (randyhyde_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/28/04

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    "Alex McDonald" <alex_mcd@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:ce6jj8
    >
    > Randy has indicated (another part of this thread) that this is an
    > NP-complete problem; I'm not in agreement with him here, as I think it's a
    > cost-based variation of transitive closure, where each basic block is a
    node
    > on the graph and the cost is the jump distance. The minimal algorithm is
    > P-complete and requires one pass; however, it's a second pass over the
    > data -- hence two passes needed for your assembler. I'm willing to be
    proved
    > wrong on this one, btw.

    Alex, this is a very *old* proof. 70's or 80's as I recall.
    You might want to read the following, as it provides a pretty good
    explanation of this:
    http://www.masmforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1734

    >
    > > _Many_ of the innovations,
    > > i have introduced with SpAsm/RosAsm, have been reused or
    > > simulated by others, in order to fight against the Open
    > > Source Mouvement, but i have yet to see _one_ mention
    > > of it, in _any_ competitor Project.
    >
    > You can't copyright an idea, although getting a citation is nice. What
    > innovations in SpAsm or RosAsm have you seen implemented elsewhere?

    Why, Alex, you missed the use of underscores in the middle of numbers!
    Didn't you know that Rene "invented" this? He also invented the
    self-compiling assembler (or so he has claimed here, in the past several
    weeks).

    There is no question that Rene has *re-invented* many things.
    Cheers,
    Randy Hyde

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