Re: A86: Byte order

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Subject: Re: A86: Byte order
From: Dan Eble <eble@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 12:45:02 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Martin Blix Grydeland wrote:

> But this never worked, and for fun I tried the more common sense method:
> ld de,$0010		;$00->e, $10->d
> add hl,de		;hl=hl+$10
> 
> This works excellent. Could somebody please tell me why the second version does not add $0100 to hl???


Words in memory have swapped bytes; registers do not.  Your method above
is correct, but your comments are not right.

	ld de, $0010	; $00->d, $10->e

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A86: Byte order

From: Martin Blix Grydeland <grydelan@stud.ntnu.no>

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