From: notsaying@nospicedham.invalid.org   
      
   On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 10:04:21 GMT, "wolfgang kern"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Kerr-Mudd,John posted:   
   >   
   > after all I see some neat tricks in your code ...   
   >   
   >> minicalc.com   
   >   
   >> ->u100 l100   
   >> 161D:0100 BE 80 00       mov          si,0080   
   >> 161D:0103 AC             lodsb   
   >> 161D:0104 98             cbw   
   >> 161D:0105 91             xchg         ax,cx   
   >> 161D:0106 E8 8F 00       call         0198   ; getnum   
   >> 161D:0109 72 4C          jb           0157   
   >> 161D:010B 95             xchg         ax,bp   
   >   
   > I'm not sure where the call returns to if only spaces or cx=0.   
      
   Yup, not tested properly   
      
   >>   
   >> getnum:   
   >> 161D:0198 AC             lodsb   
   >> 161D:0199 3C 20          cmp          al,20   
   >> 161D:019B E1 FB          loopzw       0198   
   >> 161D:019D 74 30          jz           01CF   
   >   
   > ?? if first call: 01CF pops ax,dx,pb,ip ??  (JZ 01CE)   
   >   
   Ah yes definitely bad code.   
      
   Thanks for reviewing it; it seems much easier to find faults in other   
   peoples code!   
      
   >   
   > you use the "h" as prefix while I (optionally) display it after Num.   
      
   It's much easier to process input in that format ISTM.   
      
      
      
      
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