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From: Robert Plantz <plantz@sonoma.edu>
Subject: Re: hint?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:19:09 -0700
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To: Henio Paszczak <blurrpp@yahoo.com>, linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org

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.  :-)