Jumping into the middle of an instruction is not as strange as it sounds

Reuben Harris and Monte Davidoff spent time disassembling Bill Gates’s original Altair BASIC. In an interview with The Register, Harris was impressed with the code, noting with some admiration, “I found a jump instruction that jumped to the middle of another instruction.”¹ You can find the targets of those jumps in the error handling code: Search for “Three common errors.” The post Jumping into the middle of an instruction is not as strange as it sounds appeared first on The Old New Thing....

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