On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 4:26 AM Glen <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that some DEC assemblers allow local labels of > the form d$ where d is a digit from 0 to 9. > > Local labels need to be unique between any two normal labels. > References to them would, then, only work between those same labels. > > -- glen >
I don't remember the assembler involved, but I do remember loving the local labels. I also remember a different form of the jump instruction which said "jump to previous|next local label" and the local label didn't have a name at all. Very nice for loops and jumping over / back a few instructions. -- Between infinite and short there is a big difference. -- G.H. Gonnet Maranatha! <>< John McKown
