Hi

Really can't figure out any use case for restartout instruction..
... might someone pls shed light on this for me ?

.. i mean, i get from the manual :


... but fail to see an actual use case for this...
... looks really weird/cryptic to me...


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One place where you can find it actually used is in my old assembler emulation project. MASM_COM.ASH contains this part: It is used to reduce the previously generated output, stripping redundant bytes.

Similarly, if you had an existing project that produces some kind of data and you wanted to add additional processing to compress the generated file and only keep the shrunk version, this command would help to do it easily, while allowing the base project to still use facilities like ORG or $%.

It is also worth noting that even though previous output areas are discarded from the list of data blocks to write into the final file, their contents can still be accessed with LOAD commands, but only through an area label (defined with "::").