POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : I found this interesting : Re: I found this interesting Server Time
4 Nov 2024 21:26:48 EST (-0500)
  Re: I found this interesting  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 6 Apr 2008 16:42:18
Message: <47f935aa@news.povray.org>

> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> I never went lower level than C. (well, I have looked at the 
>> assembly-like code for LEGO RCX, but I doubt that counts; there aren't 
>> even pointers there) I think some day I should learn asm...
> 
> The concept of assembly without pointers bemuses me.

The RCX has numbered variables (16-bit signed integers). There is no 
real access to "memory". Although the 2.0 firmware supports indirect 
access (indirect(3) reads get_variable(get_variable(3)) ) so things like 
indexing an "array" in a loop is possible.


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.