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Comment by marssaxman

3 months ago

68K style always made more sense to me: we read left-to-right, after all. Why should we suddenly switch directions for the operand order? It's confusing.

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unwind  3 months ago

I believe the reasoning for the "Intel style" ("op dst, src") is that it reads more like "dst = src" which is how it's written in higher-level languages.

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