[Coco] assembly language question.

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 00:26:09 EST 2010


On 2/3/10, Bob Devries wrote:
> Gene,
>
> the orientation of the < is importnat of course, and will determine the 8 or
> 16 bit operation.
>
> To compare the X register with memory, it would need to read:
>
> cmpx >LblName
>

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This is not correct.  In this case, the use of < or > has nothing to
do with the size of the operation. It is a way to explicitly force the
assembler to use either Direct or Extended addressing.  The register
involved in the operation determines the operation size.

Darren



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