Re: A86: ASM Clear-Up


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Re: A86: ASM Clear-Up




Thanks for the info. I get it now. Seems so logical and dumb when it's
explained right.

-----Original Message-----
From: ZeromusMog@aol.com <ZeromusMog@aol.com>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: A86: ASM Clear-Up


>
>In a message dated 1/22/99 5:53:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>cflan@granitecity.com writes:
>
>> What does the ',0' mean after the string text? I see it often but don't
>> actually know the point.
>
>The ,0 is a null character. It tells the _puts command to stop reading text
at
>that point. If it wasn't there, you'd get your string and a bunch of
garbage,
>and it would keep reading until it found a byte of zeroes somewhere in the
>memory. The string is stored in binary as ASCII data, then ends with a byte
of
>zeroes. _puts (or any other display call) stops when it reaches that point.
>