Notices by Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru (jbqueru@fosstodon.org)

@foone @eniko Oh yeah, I know that feeling.

Being free from calling conventions is a strength and weakness of assembly. Those are part of the overhead of higher-level languages, and you might as well use a compiler if you're willing to incur that overhead.

I have a piece of Z80 code that I'm currently working on, where the calling convention includes "the caller must set DE to $0006, and the callee must not modify it, don't ask."

Yes, I think of C as a high-level language, it's all relative.

@eniko @foone I write assembly. RET is nothing more than POP PC, i.e. (in pseudo-68k) JMP (SP)+. Your talk about methods and functions and procedures and subroutines means nothing to me.

;-)

@thomholwerda @mntmn Yup, I agree. Regardless of my low-level programming desires, if I wanted an ARM Linux laptop, I know I'd be hitting a Reform (w/ 32GB 3588)...