From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: [OT] Assembly language syntax, was: Re: A question about syntax or semantics
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 14:40:41 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2014-05-18T14:40:41+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <llagp9$ova$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ly38g75pmp.fsf@pushface.org
On 2014-05-18, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
>
> Well, considering the various assembler languages around, I'd still be
> confused but for different reasons: given "mov r0,r1" does r1 receive
> the value in r0 (which is what I'd expect, my first encounter with a
> 'normal' assembler having been MACRO-32) or does r0 receive the value in
> r1?
On ARM, with the binutils assembler, it's the other way around.
BTW, "mov src, dest" versus "mov dest, src" is an attribute of the
assembler in use, not the architecture.
A very good example would be the gas versus Intel syntax for x86.
Same architecture, different assembler syntax.
Simon.
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2014-05-17 22:56 A question about syntax or semantics Victor Porton
2014-05-17 23:05 ` Bill Findlay
2014-05-18 2:47 ` Brad Moore
2014-05-18 10:48 ` Simon Wright
2014-05-18 14:40 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
2014-05-18 14:50 ` [OT] Assembly language syntax, was: " Simon Wright
2014-05-19 17:02 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-05-19 21:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-05-19 22:05 ` Bill Findlay
2014-05-19 22:58 ` Robert A Duff
2014-05-20 8:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
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