[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sat May 4 09:56:17 EDT 2024


Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Fri, 3 May 2024 11:41:47 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>> Useful comments are comments that explain why the code
>> does what it does.
>
>Absolutely agree. The key word is “why” the code does what it does, not 
>“what” it does (which is trivially obvious from the code itself).

groovy::                      ; do that groovy thing
	.call_entry	max_args=33,home_args=true,preserve=<r3,r5>
	movl	(ap),r3       ; boogity boogity boogity
	moval	4(ap),r5      ; yeah, you got it baby
	ret                   ; go back and do it again
	.psect	idata,wrt,noexe,quad
	.align	quad
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