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Subject: Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge
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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:55:05 +0200
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Albert van der Horst wrote:
> Care to name a few processors besides Intel's that use
>    dst,src
> order of operands?

Entertaining question!  I did a quick survey just now.

Most assemblers for RISC(-like) processors that I checked put the
destination first.  The exception is store instructions, which usually
have the source register first, and the destination last.

These conform to this convention: PDP-10, MIPS, ARM, PowerPC, Alpha.

On the other hand, these consistently use src,dst (even in load/store
instructions): PDP-11 (MACRO-11), VAX (MACRO-32), M68000 (Motorola
syntax), SPARC.