[Oberon] Standalone BootLoader format

Tomas Kral thomas.kral at email.cz
Wed May 13 13:48:37 CEST 2020


On Wed, 13 May 2020 11:25:14 +0200
Andreas Pirklbauer <andreas_pirklbauer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> So you can see that the SB = R13 register is not used AT ALL in PO
> 2013. Instead, RH is used, and there is no more need to initialize SB
> to a reasonable value (namely VaroOrg0 = 0) in ORG.Header.

Interesting, no SB then.

Does this imply SB was to 0 most of the time,
so R13 is now free for general purpose?

Does this lead to a shorter more compact code?  

I wish I could say I am now less confused :-)

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Tomas Kral <thomas.kral at email.cz>


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