Re: OT: programming languages (was: More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues))
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 21:39 |
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:44:41PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> In our microprogramming (hoping that's the English word) labs, it was
> annoyingly easy to make single-instruction infinitite loops ... had the boxen
> accepted single-byte instructions it would've been trivial to make a one byte
> infinite loop.
JMP +0 (or GO or BRanch Unconditionally or whatever) is a pretty
darn tight infinite loop. Don't know of any assembly, even on 8-bit
machines, in which it's only one byte, though. More's the pity.
-Mark