EJ's original suggestion was a good one; and it may well be that, as Bernd Oppolzer has suggested, he identified one of a class of quondam errors/blunders that the assembler can usefully warn against.
More attention to this narrow question may yet yield something useful. On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:20 PM, robin <robi...@dodo.com.au> wrote: > From: "glen herrmannsfeldt" <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu> > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 2:09 AM > > > Seems to me what would be nice is a way to use the length of the >> second operand as the length for MVC or CLC. >> > > Definitely not. > But a macro could be written to deal with the general case. > > If you are copying into a buffer, it is the length of the source, >> not the length of the buffer, that you want to use. >> >> Once you do that, the given problem goes away. >> > > But another one arises -- the source may be longer than the destination, > and so the move trashes memory beyond the buffer. > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
