11 Dec
2015
11 Dec
'15
1:50 a.m.
On 12/10/15 4:06 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
John Cowan <cowan(a)mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
As a newb who doesn't know any better than what it seems they do, in
keeping with the original minimalism:
"as" should have been "me" for mnemonic encoder
"ld" should have been "la" for link and assemble
and some obscure function in /usr/sys/ken/sys1.c or maybe even
/usr/sys/dmr/sys1.c, because one guy's folder is as good as the next,
should have been called pldr(), for program loader, which would have
been the program 'loader'.
-Will
Clem Cole scripsit:
You are completely wrong! It is the load mnemonic for Z8/Z80/Z8000
Assembler
to load the operand into the destination
ld r1,r2
;)
Oliver To be fair UNIX was the naming sinner here IMO.
Unix's ld command
is the
"link editor",
I thought "ld" stood for Link eDitor. :-)