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echo: os2prog
to: David Noon
from: George White
date: 1996-06-05 08:48:00
subject: Force close a MDOS sessi

Hi David,

You wrote to me:

DN>GW> DN>     DB   02H,0FDH
DN>GW>
DN>GW> Much better, as that is the correct byte sequence :-).
DN>GW> "DW 02FDH" will generate the byte sequence "DB
0FDH,02H" because
DN>GW> of the little endian Intel arrangement.

DN>No it won't. Hexadecimal constants are treated as bit strings and
DN>don't suffer from that [mutter, mutter] byte reversal.

????

In my experience of assemblers for Intel processors your theory does not
hold, and DW'd hexadecimal constants do produce the byte reversal.

George

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