Re: Orca/M bug MVN & MVP?

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:

>   This is not mentioned anywhere in the manual for Orca/M, and it
>really bugged me the first few times I ran into it. The only thing I've 
>found is to hardcode the MVN myself doing things like:

>     lda #$0ffe
>     ldy #$2000
>     ldx#$1000
>     dc h'44 01 01'

  Gack! It's in the manual, Nate :)

>   I've goten so used to doing this that I haven't bugged Mike Westerfield
>and seen what his excuse of the day for this one is.

  It's not Mike's fault - it's a design _choice_, one that makes it easy
to do stuff like:

  lda #numbytes
  ldy #addr1
  ldx #addr2
  mvn addr1,addr2


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