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Subject: Re: Reverse Bitboards

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 00:46:10 01/17/03

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On January 17, 2003 at 01:01:32, Matt Taylor wrote:

>On January 16, 2003 at 00:57:20, Walter Faxon wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2003 at 02:24:42, Matt Taylor wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>>
>>>MMX does hold one card though that seems to be mocking me. MMX has 8 64-bit
>>>registers. Integer has 8 32-bit (or 4 64-bit) registers. Hmm...I really hate
>>>doing this because it's -ugly-, but I think I'm going to use the stack pointer
>>>as an additional GPR. I will need it.
>>>
>>>-Matt
>>
>>
>>Surely you mean the base pointer (ebp) ??
>>
>>-- Walter
>
>No, I'll need the base pointer too. It's legal to use the stack pointer, just
>ugly. Intel already thought of this -- different privilege levels use different
>stacks so an exception in a user program can't kill the OS.

I guess this will suspend interrupts during the time the routine runs? Yes, why
not. You will get famous if you find a way to outperform rotated bitboards, you
know. Gerd was already close, he is a real pioneer.

Bas.



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