Re: A89: Re: Hello everyone.

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Subject: Re: A89: Re: Hello everyone.
From: Olle Hedman <oh@hem.passagen.se>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:54:57 +0200
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SirKnight wrote:
> Hey, for all you assemblers out there.  How about some sorta macro or
> assembler option to automatically compress stuff?  For example, you put an
> image in your code (and perhaps identify it as one) and the the assembler
> does the compression and include the code to decompress it when the program
> need it.  (it's just an idea from a non asm person :)

very bad if you use it more then one time. or a lot waste of space at least.
a macro is copied into your code everytime you use it.
what is wrong with a decompress subroutine? I don't see that you win very much
by your method.

tell me what you was thinking was the advantadge by do it your way was..'
(and then I will tell you why you where wrong ;)

//Olle

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A89: Re: Hello everyone.

From: "SirKnight" <sirknight@mindless.com>