On 7/11/25 10:55, Phil Smith III wrote:
I once saw in IBM (PL/X generated) assembler code:
FIFTYSIX EQU 56
Worse, I've seen
THREE EQU 2
...or some such. Once. Briefly. Until I fixed it.
...
I suspect that "FIFTYSIX" was coded by the programmer,
not generated by the compiler.
That same PL/X program was from open-source era so we
could legally modify it, which we wanted to. And
nicely parameterized with such as:
ROWS EQU 24,
so I could change the value to:
ROWS EQU 32
and it worked. But the code teemed with such as:
MH =Y(ROWS) Multiply by 24
... the code worked but the comments had become wrong!
--
gil
