Re: Question about jumps


randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
I don't understand the purpose of the macros.

I'll bet Evenbit doesn't understand your non-standard mnemonics,
either.

Hmm... You write a paper in defense of HLA's syntax:

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AsmTools/HLA/HLADoc/HTMLDoc/WhatIsHLA.html
[snippet]
By far, the largest number of complaints about the HLA language come
from people who've learned x86 programming with one of the available
assemblers, take a quick look at HLA, and reject it because it's
radically different than what they're used to programming with. Common
complaints include "you've switched the operands of the instructions
around" or "why did you switch the MOV operands and not the LEA
operands?" (funny, those same people rarely complain about the fact
that I didn't swap the CMP operands, either). Other common complaints
include "why do I have to type all those damn parentheses (or
semicolons)?" and "What does `@c' stand for?" (the carry flag, if
you're wondering). It boils down to "Why didn't I use a conventional
syntax so HLA would be easier to learn?" The answer is quite simple; I
didn't design HLA to make it easy for people who already know assembly
language to learn HLA. I designed HLA to make it easy for people who
don't know assembly language, but do know a high level language, to
learn assembly language.
[/snippet]

.... and then you attack Herbert for the syntax his assembler uses??

Nathan.

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