Re: A89: Run Down on some Things

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Subject: Re: A89: Run Down on some Things
From: Jimmy =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5rdell?= <yarin@acc.umu.se>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 20:02:13 +0100
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At 01:29 1998-12-07 +0100, you wrote:
>
>Jimmy Mårdell wrote:
>> Actually, it should have been "var: dc.w 10" which would define
>> a word with value 10 (equal to "var: .dw 10" in TASM). The row
>> about ("ds.w 10") actually defines 10 words, set to 0:
>> 
>
>Is it really defining 10 words _set_to_0_?
>Isnt it just defining a space, 10 words long..  and what's inside it, is
>undefined... could be anything stored in the same memoryarea before? (like the
>last program you ran)

Nah... it's not a BSS area, as that would have to be supported by the OS.
I just checked it out - it's zeros.

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Re: A89: Run Down on some Things

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Re: A89: Run Down on some Things

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