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[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

There's a project I'm following where an opcode called "SUICIDE" (which deleted the program it was triggered from) was renamed "SELFDESTRUCT" because people were bothered by the reference to self-harm. I personally considered it a waste of effort, but at least in that case it was really just a matter of changing some strings in the documentation and having compilers accept either label for it, since the opcode itself didn't change is value.

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