VIM Q again
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 05:28:57 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 00:57 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> The original coder from 25 years ago was
> either fighting with a broken assembler, or somehow used the z-80 as a
> model
> for 6809 code, there was z-80 coding style trash all over it, and
> strings of
> code 10 to 40 bytes long that had an rts or a bra to someplace else
> above them
> with no label, meaning it will never be executed, so why is it there?
> I can
> only guess 25 years after the fact.
Sounds like something a 25-year old non-optimizing compiler might have
generated.
poc
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