Language for the ages
Tony Duell
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Thu Oct 20 15:42:28 CDT 2005
> 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
I feel it would also be sensible to describe what R2 contains --
something like 'save the disk track number because we're going to have to
clobber that register in a minute'
-tony
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