DOS ain't dead - Dokuwiki on pushbx.org: Review of iniload control flow

Dokuwiki on pushbx.org: Review of iniload control flow (Developers)

posted by ecm , Düsseldorf, Germany, 05.11.2025, 09:30

> > > > mov bx, 1000h ; = amount paragraphs per 64 KiB > >
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> Why not a constant expression? That would be self-documenting.
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> mov bx,(64 * 1024) / 16

I would probably go with paras(64 * 1024)

> > > > shl cx, 1 > > shl cx, 1 > > shl cx, 1 ; how much to relocate first, > >
>
> You can do this simpler:
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> times 3: shl cx,1

There's no colon allowed after the times count I believe.

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