Re: Alternatives to MOVEL - just curious

[John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "As grotchy as it is, MOVEL at least hinted that the goal was to extract
> some (or all) of one field."
>
> The only hint it gave Buck was that whenever you saw a MOVE
> of _any_ flavor the only thing you knew for sure was that some
> data moved somewhere.

I think Buck was getting at the fact that seeing MOVE is more of a
hint than seeing DIV, when the ultimate purpose is extracting a
portion of another field.  Especially if the variables are already
named suggestively.

I don't think anyone is arguing that MOVE* is inherently self-documenting.

John