Hi, On 05/09/2013 10:14 AM, dw wrote: > Hey Andrew, thanks for the response. >>> I've been working on re-writing the docs for extended-asm. However, as >>> bad as the extended-asm docs are, the NON extended asm docs (or would >>> that be "basic asm"?) appear to be completely missing. Does anyone have >>> a link to the basic asm docs (even an old version)? >> They're just passed through to the assembler AFAIK, so there's not much to >> document. > > Mostly that's true. > > While I have some general questions I'm still working on, mostly what I > seem to be finding is all the things that don't work or just aren't safe > with basic asm, sometimes in non-obvious ways. Makes finding > non-trivial samples a challenge. Worse, my docs for basic asm (almost) > consist of "for safe and maintainable code, don't use basic, always use > extended." Which says to me I simply haven't learned enough yet to > write this topic. Not really. It isn't very far from wrong to say that unless you really understand the target assembler in a deep way, don't do it. For example, you might have to emit various pseudo-ops to get the right section, etc. Andrew.
