I use 16 bit immediate operand instructions to load pad bytes. Typically I code X'4000' or 256*C'0'' for a blank pad, but it would be more readable if there were syntax to treat AL1(C' ',0) as a DC operand. Is there an open requirement along those lies?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
