I just realized that the reason 0x hex literals are so verbose is that C incorrectly bet on octal. 40 years later we’re still paying the price :(
Yeah, I just guessed that it went back to the very first assembler. Definitely could be wrong.
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(Very first assembler for the 8086, that is)
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Google brought up some old Intel 8008 assembly. Looks like the 00h notation existed back then: https://github.com/feilipu/LLL-Floating-Point/blob/master/80_lllf.asm#L60 …
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