From: alex@nospicedham.rivadpm.com   
      
   On 30-Dec-18 23:31, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   How so? The literals are assembled out of line of the code.   
      
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
      
   In other words, use an assembler or compiler with good programmer   
   facilities. Preprocessors are a nuisance, especially macro driven beasts   
   like m4. The idea is to simplify, the outcome is complexity.   
      
      
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   Alex   
      
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