>Prefixes are the best way of indicating a base. It's easier to read, to
>process more pleasant to the eye, more recognizable and less ambiguous. I
>personally hate the trick of adding a 0 to an address starting with a
>letter (0FFFFh... argh!!).
Well I like it! Although adding the extra 0 to an address can be a pain
sometimes indeed... But an intelligent assembler should be able to see the
difference between an address and a label, too bad they usually don't.
>> Which is a standard Zilog/Intel convention AFAIK.
>
>No.
>
>H's are indeed a standard Intel convention *BUT REMEMBER* Zilog enhanced
>the 8080 architecture with their Z80, including the assembler!!! So don't
>make a step backwards, please.
Then why does Zilog use H-suffixes in all their official documentation?
(Z80, Z380, etc.)
>People got bad Z80 assembler habits because of the 8080/Z80 assembler
>combos (like the M80). Many people keep using DB and DS when the standard
>Zilog equivalents are DEFB, DEFM, DEFS and DEFL.
Well, DB/DW/etc is a lot faster to type than DEFx... And besides, not
everything Zilog uses as standard is good. The Z380 assembly language isn't
very handy at times, like the DDIR (Decoder DIRectives) instruction prefixes.
Greetz,
Patriek
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