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|    Rick C. Hodgin to James Harris    |
|    Re: String literals in asm source code    |
|    30 Dec 18 18:31:19    |
      From: rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com              On 12/21/2018 2:49 PM, James Harris wrote:       > What's the most readable way to include string literals in asm source code?              In assembly, it's important to have readability for maintenance, but you       often use assembly code for a reason.              If you intermix data and code you'll be polluting the instruction cache       with unnecessary data that's not needed.              > Of course, code layout is not a major issue but it is one of convenience; and       > readability is important. So I wondered what other people do to incorporate       > strings in code. What have you found to be the most readable and easiest to       > work with?              My advice is if you need true readability, create a tool that will       allow you to write source code in a nice format, and then translate       your source code to a form that is conducive to the needs of the CPU       you're writing code for.              Make it look the way you'd like to see it, but then have the tool       translate it to the needs of the machine.              --       Rick C. Hodgin              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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