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z80 Assembly :: RE: Writing z80 asm source code without ti83plus.inc

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Author: KermMartian
Posted: 27 Oct 2012 07:19:23 pm (GMT -5)

Deep Thought wrote:
techboy6601 wrote:
When you're working with low-storage devices like TI devices, anything you can do to be more efficient benefits you greatly.
Assembly source code isn't stored on the calculator itself (basically until OTBP Assembler and Mimas, which I highly doubt anyone at TI has ever used). So I guess it was to save people from typing that hard-to-reach key.

On the other hand, there may be assemblers that don't use dots before directive names (assembler syntax is far from standardized Razz), and TI engineers may have been accustomed to that.
The EQU is a throwback from an assembler that preceded TASM. When we started writing code in the community, instead of find-replacing every EQU with .equ, we just tossed the #define EQU .equ at the top of include files. And techboy, that's wrong, as since Deep said, the assembler directives don't touch your calculator.
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