Re: "tweetable" "symbolic" hex COM loader

> My temptation to write a one-pass stack-based octal version is even  
> greater now
> :).  It probably can't be under 40 bytes, but maybe it could be  
> under 70.  And
> it could be used to write the above.

Did you ever write that version?

-Dave

FWIW, I just looked at where I left things off last May.  Judging  
from the contents of the last floppy image, I'd given up on hand- 
coding and switched to NASM w/ macros, resulting in the following  
combinations:

           octal  hex
loader      75    77
one-pass    91    93
two-pass   107   109

However: none of the loops in these applications overlap, or even  
nest, so in principle one could start even more simply, with a single- 
entry symbol "table" for loops which is then expanded to a full stack- 
based implementation.  (although, unless your name is de Bruijn, I  
wouldn't recommend this approach for absolute relocations...)

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