> The article is, however, disingenuous about branching. Virtually any PPC (dis)assembler worth its salt will use extended mnemonics for the bc instructions the

> The article is, however, disingenuous about branching. Virtually any PPC (dis)assembler worth its salt will use extended mnemonics for the bc instructions the author complains about. I sort of got that from the article, though: The official PowerPC assembly syntax is confusing, so (dis)assemblers added some extensions to make it more readable/writable. E.g.: "This is ridiculously confusing,² so nobody uses the purely numeric names. People call them r0 through r31. (Some assemblers call them r.0 through r.31.)"