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diff --git a/docs/assembly.rst b/docs/assembly.rst index cd3ff4c0..9455dfb3 100644 --- a/docs/assembly.rst +++ b/docs/assembly.rst @@ -318,8 +318,10 @@ would be written as follows mstore(0x80, add(mload(0x80), 3)) -Functional style and instructional style can be mixed, but any opcode inside a -functional style expression has to return exactly one stack slot (most of the opcodes do). +Functional style expressions cannot use instructional style internally, i.e. +``1 2 mstore(0x80, add)`` is not valid assembly, it has to be written as +``mstore(0x80, add(2, 1))``. For opcodes that do not take arguments, the +parentheses can be omitted. Note that the order of arguments is reversed in functional-style as opposed to the instruction-style way. If you use functional-style, the first argument will end up on the stack top. |