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pvitz on Feb 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: C4: C in Four Functions (2014)

Because e.g. pc and sp are exactly the abbreviations used in assembler for some decades?

gmfawcett on Feb 18, 2020 [–]

We should probably mention that "e.g." is an abbreviation for the Latin "exempli gratia", and means "for example." ;-)

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