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Subject: Assembler optimizations, was Re: Booting the right ProDOS 8 for any Apple II
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 22:35:32 -0000 (UTC)
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Michael 'AppleWin Debugger Dev' wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 2:10:09 PM UTC-7, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
>> You want a macro smart enough to peephole optimize redundant LDA #0's
>> away,
>> and to choose an unneeded register when available--more than most macros
>> can handle. 
>> 
> 
> Ideally, yes, but considering the 6502 assemblers are pretty dumb with
> optimizations (as far as I know they don't do any) 

Nor should they, I daresay.