Re: A89: Starting out assembly, need help


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Re: A89: Starting out assembly, need help






>
>In a message dated 12/1/98 12:15:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>assets@eden.rutgers.edu writes:
>
>> xCoordinate    equ    $5800
>>
>>  then you would access it like this:
>>
>>   move.w a1,xCoordinate
>>
>>  on the other hand, if you defined xCoordinate in your code using a label
>and
>>  dc.w, then you would be changing an area of user memory that is occupied
by
>>  your program; you would access it w/ relative addressing:
>>
>>  move.w a1,xCoordinate(pc)
>
>aren't the operands supposed to be switched?

I guess if you want, but I thought you were asking how to move a1 into
memory (rather than reading from memory into a1)