2026-09-13 02:22 UTC
and so designers of assembly language syntaxes have to choose, do you stick with your convention about where the target is, or do you stick with your convention about how it lines up with traditional math-on-paper notation?
since we're doing RPN, we have this a bit easier, but it's still a trap for the unwary
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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2026-09-13 02:23
especially when you contemplate that this same decision also occurs at the machine code level in all of these instructions, there's two slots for a register identifier, and which is which is consistent across some operations and not others