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from waspentalive@lemmy.world to programming@programming.dev on 04 Jul 04:20
https://lemmy.world/post/32443226
from waspentalive@lemmy.world to programming@programming.dev on 04 Jul 04:20
https://lemmy.world/post/32443226
Assembly language programmers:
Do you see any use at all for an instruction STORE register Y in the memory location pointed to by register Y ?
I am writing my own 8-bit computer emulator for a machine with an ISA I designed myself, and the quest for orthogonality has led to this.
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Why would you? Effectively you are storing the address of the address at the address. It would get more complicated if there where post/pre increments or index offsets involved.