I studied electronics and assembler language at a time when PCs and high-level languages did not exist. I learned on my own with QB and I never needed to excel in PC computer languages because it wasn't necessary in my job to design electronic devices with microcontrollers, it may seem unthinkable ...

I do think that having a function for multi level dir creation is useful. The Delphi name for the function is "ForceDirectories". Recursive directory deletion doesn't have to be dangerous, if like rmdir it only removes empty dirs, and returns an error on non empty. So rmdir, not rm -rf :-)

Note that Free Pascal has multiple RPN expression engines. Another one is written by me and called the "symbolic" package (fpc/packages/symbolic). You are welcome to convert/use that code as you wish.

I occasionally search for (recent) mentions of FPC and Lazarus to comment on. I just did, and I only get results from 2005. Seems the search is working, but just got its database restored to the very beginnings ;-) Ah, I started a rebuild, but apparently if I close the page the rebuild stops. Perha...

FreePascal has a switch to choose between Intel and ATT syntax in in-line assembly. Since it uses AS, too, this could also be possible in FB. (A slightly late reply because it bubbled up due to searchengine problems, but no. FPC parses both Intel and AT&T fully, and then always generates AT&...

I occasionally search for (recent) mentions of FPC and Lazarus to comment on. I just did, and I only get results from 2005. Seems the search is working, but just got its database restored to the very beginnings ;-) It does bring up pearls like V1ctor saying he can't do without Freepascal: https://ww...

There are about 1503 instructions nowadays. The Intel doc documents them all, so best to download the Intel datasheets.

(Probably need update, Lazarus and Free Pascal both released in the last 3-4 weeks)

And Windows Smartscreen.

Actually, BCD is a digit per byte/word. Digit per nibble is "packed BCD". Afaik forms of EAN 128 barcodes still use it.

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I'm not even sure if those instructions are really faster nowadays. Agree, likely to be slower even ... That's what I meant with pre-pentium. Starting with pentium-I and more importantly later Pentium-Pro, using standard simple instructions is usually faster than using "weird" legacy inst...

It is pre pentium era fun. I'm not even sure if those instructions are really faster nowadays.

And most members seem to handle horrible preprocessor stuff just fine (look at all the container type discussions). ASM is much simpler.

setbcd

aam
mov dl,ah
shl dl,4
or al,dl
xor ah,ah

getbcd

mov ah,al
shr ah,4
and al,15
aad

"Don't stab pictures in the attic" That made me chuckle but I suspect many will not understand it. If it is any consolation I suspect that it made Oscar Wide chuckle as well. Oscar Wilde could be quite funny it seems. His quotes are quite popular (like e.g. Churchill) in e.g. Unix fortune...