14 Jul
2024
14 Jul
'24
7:04 a.m.
I think this is correctly patched:
On 7/13/24 19:46, John Levine wrote:
> Aron Insinga<aki(a)insinga.com> said:
>
> the DEC PDP-1 MACRO assembler manual says that a macro call
> is expanded by copying the *sequence of 'storage words' and
> advancing the current location (.) for each word copied*
> I am quite surprised.
I looked at the manual and I think he's misreading it. The "words" in
question are the tokens in the macro definition.
The example macros look pretty straightforward, instructions and
pseudo-ops that are expanded replacing dummy arguments by actual ones.
There's no conditional assembly so each macro is just a parameterized
chunk of code.
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp1/PDP-1_Macro.pdf
R's,
John