| ▲ | f1shy 6 hours ago | |
Cadr here has no relation with lisp cadr, right? | ||
| ▲ | jasomill 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Correct. CADR is an AGC assembly directive defining a "complete address" including a memory bank, in this case a subroutine to be called by the preceding BANKCALL (TC = transfer control, i.e., store return address and jump to subroutine), which switches to the memory bank specified in the CADR before jumping to the address specified in the CADR. For a brief explanation of AGC subroutine calls, see [1]. CAR and CDR in Lisp come from the original implementation on the IBM 704, where pointers to the two components of a cons cell were stored as the (C)ontents of the (A)ddress and (D)ecrement fields of a (R)egister (memory word). (CADR x) is just shorthand for (CAR (CDR x)), i.e., a function that returns the second element of a list (assuming x is a well-formed list). [1] https://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/inostr-yazyki/American_... | ||
| ▲ | jacquesm 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |