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to: TIM HUTZLER
from: JOHN GARDENIERS
date: 1997-11-04 18:17:00
subject: jmp $+2

            Hi Tim,
 -=> 01 Nov 97 21:20, Tim Hutzler wrote to Glenn Delahoy <=-
 GD>> jmp $+2
 TH> It is considered poor programming practice with the 86xx family, but
Considered "bad practice" by who?
 TH> was routinely done with the 65xx processors. You can safely bet that
 TH> folks who still do this used to program Commodors. [grin]
As the "trick" has been around since the very first days of computer
programming it would be far more accurate to say that anyone doing so is 
simply
following conventional programing practices. Nothing new, nothing wrong.
Certainly not "bad practice".
        ttyl,
            >>> Fuse >>>
... As an absolutely last resort, read the documentation.
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