From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:00:06 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Query on PDP-11 assembly
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:53:52AM -0500, Milo Velimirovic wrote:
> A subprogram using this calling convention would look something like  
> this:
> 
> questf:	mov (r5)+,r0
> 	/ play with string pointed to by r0.
> 	rts r5

It warms my heart to see pdp-11 assembly again.  What a pleasant instruction
set.  m68k was close but already starting to get weird and x86 is the pits.
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