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Assembly language programmers:

Do you see any use at all for an instruction STORE register Y in the memory location pointed to by register Y ?

I am writing my own 8-bit computer emulator for a machine with an ISA I designed myself, and the quest for orthogonality has led to this.

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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Why would you? Effectively you are storing the address of the address at the address. It would get more complicated if there where post/pre increments or index offsets involved.