Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: Re: Optimization technique wanted... Message-ID: <372@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 10:10:30 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.372 Posted: Tue Dec 4 10:10:30 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:51:34 EST References: <438@ima.UUCP> <258@scc.UUCP> <332@ut-sally.UUCP> <160@dido.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 11 > The assembler gave no help whatsoever, so you wrote your program, and then > produced an assembly listing with its 100 or so displacement errors and > whittled them down by hand. I wrote 2 compilers for that machine. My > eventual approach was to do almost everything by indirects with the compiler > breaking code to jump around a block of indirect words every so often. And all this time I thought the Nova was developed in the U.S. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell