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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) goto syntax
- From: Miles Bader <miles@...>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:08:46 +0900
David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> writes:
> Mike Pall's dynasm does that [1]. Labels are numeric (1: to 9:) and
> can be reused. Forward (>) or backward (<) modifiers in the jump
> opcodes disambiguate. When I first saw this syntax, it's purpose
> wasn't immediately obvious to me.
This is traditional in assemblers (not sure what the actual origin
is), often using "b" or "f" as suffixes (e.g., 1: dostuff ... jmp 1b).
-Miles
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- References:
- [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available, Alexandre Erwin Ittner
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available, Frank Meier-Dörnberg
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available, David Kastrup
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available, Frank Meier-Dörnberg
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available, Eduardo Ochs
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available, Frank Meier-Dörnberg
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available, David Given
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) now available, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) goto syntax, Edgar Toernig
- Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (beta-rc1) goto syntax, David Manura