[1376] in Humor
HUMOR: Now That's Debugging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Sun Apr 7 18:59:56 1996
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 18:54:34 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 18:34:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 08:05:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
From: kptben@aol.com (KPT Ben)
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,alt.folklore.computers,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Funny (was Risque) Mnemonics
Of course, the PPC architecture defines the instruction:
"load floating-point single-precision indexed with update"
with the mnemonic "lfsux".
Whenever the Mac debugger Macsbug finds this in the disassembly, it adds
the comment:
"It's also a bitch, then you die."
Go figure :)
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Ben Weiss
Senior Software Engineer
MetaTools Inc. (formerly HSC Software)
