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- In article <13213494@sourcery.han.de> "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de> writes:
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- > ...
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- > > Ok, so location $4 points to EXEC, but:
- > >
- > > 1) I wonder: why not 0?
- >
- > On reset and cold start the 68k CPU fetches its initial program counter
- > from address 0. Might be that this was the reason for avoiding 0 altogether.
- >
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- No. On reset and cold start the 68k CPU fetches its initial
- program counter from $4. The initial supervisor stack pointer is
- fetched from $0.
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- -Chris
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