Re: mnemonics (was: Who owns computer languages?)

adrian@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
13 Nov 1997 23:37:59 -0500

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From: adrian@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Nov 1997 23:37:59 -0500
Organization: Royal Holloway, University of London
References: 97-11-043 97-11-057
Keywords: assembler, comment

A probably-ignorable observation:


Gregory Bond (gnb@itga.com.au) wrote:
: Intel
: MOV src, dst
: became the Zilog
: LD dst, src




I've always hated MOV as a mnemonic, even though I love PDP-11's where I first
used it. The data doesn't move, it is _copied_ so that after the instruction
the dst contains a copy of the src. Whenever I design a new processor I use
CPY dst,src for this operation.


                                                  Adrian


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