From: Robert Plantz <plantz@sonoma.edu>
To: Henio Paszczak <blurrpp@yahoo.com>, linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hint?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:19:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4509E36D.3040701@sonoma.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060914195852.88791.qmail@web50313.mail.yahoo.com>
Boy, do I feel stupid. I've been writing assembly language
using the gnu assembler for seven years and have even
written a textbook about it. Although it is not the subject
of this question, the example given:
Henio Paszczak wrote:
> -----------
> movl $3,%ebx
> movl $3,%edx
> movl $0b111111111111111111111111111,%ecx
>
> ----------
is the first time I learned that you can specify literals
in binary. I always thought that you had to use the
C syntax and express bit patterns in hexadecimal or
octal.
On the plus side, I'm still eager to learn things. :-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-14 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-14 19:58 hint? Henio Paszczak
2006-09-14 22:05 ` hint? Marcin Kościelnicki
2006-09-14 23:19 ` Robert Plantz [this message]
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