From: Jon Snader <jsnader@ix.netcom.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Hello Assembly
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:41:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080211194151.GA94576@ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4249fd0fe06295fe2de7c79856aa206f@quanstro.net>
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:43:08AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > I've always thought variables and such went at the bottom... or
> > is that just m68k asm?
>
> you can put them anywhere. there's no typechecking in assembly
> and the linker doesn't care.
>
When I started programming (so long ago that assembly and Fortran
were basically the only games in town) we always put the data at
the end--it just seemed fitting somehow. Later, the best
practice became to put them at the beginning on the grounds that
the data wouldn't move as changes where made to the program; in
those days, all manner of strange things happened like programs
that knew where the data portion of other programs lived. If
nothing else, it made the (very crude) dumps easier to work with.
jcs
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2008-02-09 21:15 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-02-09 21:27 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-10 8:30 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-02-11 16:36 ` john
2008-02-11 16:43 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-11 16:45 ` john
2008-02-11 19:41 ` Jon Snader [this message]
2008-02-11 19:49 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-09 9:44 Anant Narayanan
2008-02-09 9:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-09 10:09 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-02-09 10:15 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-09 10:32 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-09 10:34 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-09 10:36 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-09 20:15 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-02-09 20:17 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-02-09 14:37 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-09 16:17 ` Brantley Coile
2008-02-09 16:27 ` ron minnich
2008-02-09 16:38 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-09 16:51 ` Brantley Coile
2008-02-10 8:04 ` maht
2008-02-11 16:39 ` john
2008-02-09 17:32 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-02-10 8:18 ` Eris Discordia
2008-02-10 8:56 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-02-10 14:38 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-10 16:55 ` Anant Narayanan
2008-02-10 18:01 ` erik quanstrom
2008-02-10 18:11 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-11 2:36 ` Adrian Tritschler
2008-02-11 2:36 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-11 2:39 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-11 6:26 ` maht
2008-02-11 2:40 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-11 2:55 ` erik quanstrom
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