Date   : Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:38:27 +0000
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: Hints'n'Tips: Assembling non-ARM code on ARM BASIC

Sprow wrote:
>> Genereates an error on ARM BASIC: No such mnemonic.
>
> You must be using a seriously crusty version of BASIC 5 then, NOP has been
> accepted as a synonym for "MOV r0,r0" for over 11 years,

It's irrelevent what BASIC I use(*), a startup test to determine the platform
you're running on shouldn't fall over because it's assuming that the
person running your program happens to be running the latest whiz-bang
bells'n'whistles doodad. That;s the whole point of a start-up platform
test.

(*)As it happens, BASIC 1.05 on RISC OS 3.11.

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