On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:28:51 -0800, Harold M Hallikainen wrote:

>        By all means, use a label! The assembler will let you know (give=
 you an
>error message) if you branch too far...
>        Reminds me of back when I first started programming the old =
MC6800. I
>didn't have an assembler, so I coded it by hand in hex. I got real good
>at counting forwards and backwards in hex... I'd just start with 0 at =
the
>beginning of the next instruction, then count FF, FE, FD, FC, etc. back
>through the code until I got to where I wanted to branch to...
>

Ouch, that sounds painful, especially with the variable byte lengths
of individual instructions between your branch and its target.

I hope you didn't have to do that for too long.

Regards, Bob

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