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I’m reading the source code of older programs,including OS etc all almost in assembly language.
They use e.g:
MOV BX,0007
note the 0007
I’m seeing that such practice is very common for assembly programmers(in this epoch?) why not use just 7? is there some special reason? I think that for readability.. maybe?
btw,all numbers for this assembly language is (until I see,isn’t document) is assumed to be 16-base.
also,I’m sure on tags. edit for me if I’m wrong.
There’s no technical reason, but it can be helpful to quickly identify where the 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit numbers are in the code at a glance.