Language for the ages

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/20/2005 at 11:10 AM David Cantrell wrote:


>> 	PSHR	R2			;  Push R2 onto the stack
>> 	MVII		10,R1			;  Move 10 to R1

>Grargh!  When I wrote our coding guidelines at work, I made it very
>clear that comments shuold describe the algorithm, not just each line of
>code.  So, for example, instead of "Push R2 onto the stack" it would say
>"squirrel R2 away because it's gonna get clobbered in a minute and we'll
>need it again", followed later by "retrieve the value we saved earlier,
>so that now we can ...".

...or "I'm saving all of the registers by habit because I've been burned
too many times when I forgot to save one.  Besides, what's a few wasted
cycles between friends?"

Anyone recognize the system for which the above assembly code is written?

Cheers,
Chuck