On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:43:08AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > I've always thought variables and such went at the bottom... or > > is that just m68k asm? > > you can put them anywhere. there's no typechecking in assembly > and the linker doesn't care. >
When I started programming (so long ago that assembly and Fortran were basically the only games in town) we always put the data at the end--it just seemed fitting somehow. Later, the best practice became to put them at the beginning on the grounds that the data wouldn't move as changes where made to the program; in those days, all manner of strange things happened like programs that knew where the data portion of other programs lived. If nothing else, it made the (very crude) dumps easier to work with. jcs
