At 14:46 +1000 on 08/30/2011, robin wrote about Re: EDIT instruction -- idiosyncrasies:
A trivial 'solution' is to have a some leading zeros in the decimal number being converted.
Or have the target field of the instruction start one byte before the actual target position and prefix the number to be converted with a non-zero (the mask also needs to be extended to support the padding non-zero). This forces the actual first byte of the number to be displayed not blank filled.
