In article <42d5840c$0$21446$ba620e4c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Michel Castelein <arcis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>A DC or DS instruction with a zero duplication factor forces boundary
>alignment, even when the NOALIGN assembler option is in effect.
>
>At the other hand, IMHO, the assembler always aligns machine instructions
on
>a halfword boundary.
>
>So, I'm wondering why the expansion of the SAVE macro begins with a DS
0H.
>
>That's redundant, isn't it?
>
>Or are there some historical reasons? If yes, which ones?
I think that SAVE has both list and execute forms as well as normal, and
the DS 0H is probably in common code before the forms diverge.
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