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From: nao@tom-yam.or.jp (Naoki Hamada)
Subject: [TUHS] Query on PDP-11 assembly
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:41:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2da2ec620804300741i1bd39a48lf5b5ba09830793b4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48187A41.80105@coraid.com>

Hi,

This technique was a very common one in assembler sources for PDP-11
versions of UNIX. For example, m40.s of Version 6 UNIX shows a line
"jsr     r0,call1; _trap" in its trap routine. I feel very funny to
tell this to Warren, the author of apout!

Anyway, it could be a source of the null-terminated expression of
character strings of the C language, I guess.

Naoki Hamada
nao at tom-yam.or.jp



  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-30 11:56 Warren Toomey
2008-04-30 13:55 ` Brantley Coile
2008-04-30 14:41   ` Naoki Hamada [this message]
2008-05-01 23:47     ` Warren Toomey
2008-04-30 16:53   ` Milo Velimirovic
2008-04-30 17:00     ` Larry McVoy
2008-04-30 17:47       ` John Cowan
2008-04-30 17:59         ` Larry McVoy
2008-04-30 15:08 ` Carl Lowenstein
2008-04-30 16:20 James A. Markevitch

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