Date:	Sun, 10 Jan 93 00:18:33 EST
From:	peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	GAS vs. Intel.

>  Opcode Src,Dest is the way it was on the PDP-11 and I think most of the
>'mainframe' systems.  Doesn't anyone else Find Intel's opcode dest,src
>bakcwards?? I hafta Mnemonic Intel's Mnemonics. :) Load instead of Move.

The first time I had to look at a 68000 assembly language book, I was totally
lost until I realized that the operand order was reversed from Intel's.
Searching through two 68K books, I found no statement of what the operand
order should be.  It's probably a religious issue, but I would argue that
since in most high level languages you would say dest=source, an assembler
shouls use the same order.

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