An Engineer in Wonderland - Help Alice with assembler code
I am trying to write some code for a microcontroller - a PIC - and have stumbled across a problem, and a sort-of answer.
As I have no formal training in well-structured assembler code, I suspect my answer is sub-optimal - or even sub-passable - and could do with some help.
My hope is that some kind soul will say 'What you need is to use Shubunkin's inferior parameter pass, or the Smyth-Hamilton's data swap', or some such.
Anyway, this is the problem:
As I have no formal training in well-structured assembler code, I suspect my answer is sub-optimal - or even sub-passable - and could do with some help.
My hope is that some kind soul will say 'What you need is to use Shubunkin's inferior parameter pass, or the Smyth-Hamilton's data swap', or some such.
Anyway, this is the problem:
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