Re: 16-bytes the same

2010-10-07 Thread Hall, Keven
One of my pet peeves is when IPCS (for example) does this: 40404040 40404040 40404040 || 0010 || 0020 Next X'0010' bytes same as above 0030 40404040 40404040 40404040 || Why not just

Re: 16-bytes the same

2010-10-07 Thread Rob Scott
Keven I agree - I would *love* to know how to override this behaviour in IPCS - I find that it gets in the way much more than it helps. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: 16-bytes the same

2010-10-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 10/7/2010 12:06 PM, Rob Scott wrote: I agree - I would *love* to know how to override this behaviour in IPCS - I find that it gets in the way much more than it helps. It would be nice if the person analyzing the dump could tell IPCS that it would take at least 256 equal bytes (for

Re: 16-bytes the same

2010-10-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 10/7/2010 1:06 PM, Rob Scott wrote: I agree - I would *love* to know how to override this behaviour in IPCS - I find that it gets in the way much more than it helps. Sometimes. I remember once entering a thoughtlessly composed operator command, perhaps d u, whatever and watching

Re: 16 bytes the same

2010-10-07 Thread john gilmore
My first post was remiss in not noting another important use of blanks-substring detection, which is due originally to the late John Cocke. The most important determinant of the performance of a translator--compiler, interpreter, assembler, whatever--is the speed and efficiency with which it

Re: 16 bytes the same

2010-10-07 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 02:51 + on 10/08/2010, john gilmore wrote about Re: 16 bytes the same: Apart from its obvious usefulness in processing right-to-left text like that of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, the TRTR instruction is valuable for locating the rightmost non-blank character in left-to-right text.