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authorJose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>2005-09-20 00:26:00 +0000
committerJose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>2005-09-20 00:26:00 +0000
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@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU MDK Reference Manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
+@c Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file mdk.texi for copying conditions.
-@c $Id: mdk_tut.texi,v 1.13 2004/06/12 01:12:59 jao Exp $
+@c $Id: mdk_tut.texi,v 1.14 2005/09/20 00:26:00 jao Exp $
@node MIX and MIXAL tutorial, Getting started, Installing MDK, Top
@comment node-name, next, previous, up
@@ -1050,11 +1050,15 @@ it will assign to the memory cell number 1150 the contents @w{- 00 06 61
11 49} (which corresponds to the decimal value -1823473).
Finally, the @code{ALF} directive let's you specify the memory contents
-as a set of five (quoted) characters, which are translated by the
-assembler to their byte values, conforming in that way the binary word
-that is to be stored in the corresponding memory cell. This directive
-comes in handy when you need to store printable messages in a memory
-address, as in the following example:
+as a set of five (optionally quoted) characters, which are translated by
+the assembler to their byte values, conforming in that way the binary
+word that is to be stored in the corresponding memory cell. This
+directive comes in handy when you need to store printable messages in a
+memory address, as in the following example @footnote{In the original
+MIXAL definition, the @code{ALF} argument is not quoted. You can write
+the operand (as the @code{ADDRESS} field) without quotes, but, in this
+case, you must follow the alignment rules of the original MIXAL
+definition (namely, the @code{ADDRESS} must start at column 17).}:
@example
OUT MSG MSG is not yet defined here (future reference)