Re: hint?

[Robert Plantz <plantz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.  :-)

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