On Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 3:34 PM Michael Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Which raises a question in my mind. Are assemblers generally immune from > this? Or are there things about assemblers that > can also cause assembly to produce different binary when an assembler > assembles from identical source? Because I have > been using 8 bit assemblers for many years operating entirely under the > assumption that, given the same source, every > run would always produce the same binary. But, now I am wondering if that > was ever a valid assumption. Or if it just > happens to be the case, "most of the time". > Generally, yes. They tend to be well worn so (a) no uninitialized variables and (b) no need for randomized algorithms so the optimization pass terminates. Plus 8-bit tends to be little more than a lookup table bolted onto a simple parse. Warner -- > Michael A Hawkins > Woodbury, CT 06798 USA > Mobile: 203-550-5502 > > > > > On Sat, 2025-11-15 at 09:54 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > That statement is actually incorrect. > > > _______________________________________________ > Sdcc-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user >
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