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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:49:39 -0300
From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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To: george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk
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Subject: Re: ASM
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George Foot wrote:

> On 23 Aug 98 at 11:39, Endlisnis wrote:
> >     I was trying to make an 'RGB' function that took 3 byte's as parameters and
> > returned a long.  My idea was to do something like:
> >     That would be faster than loading R,G,B into registers then combining them into
> > one register.
>
> Hmm.  Write your own function then; you can then access the
> parameters directly, on the stack.

    But, wouldn't it be easier, if you could access the parameters of a function as their
names (in ASM) (with an underscore if required) rather than having to use the stack?
Would that interfere with anything or be hard to do?

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