Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:37:00 02/16/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 06:34:30, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>On February 16, 2000 at 00:26:19, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>I'm not even sure that this processor really supports clean 64 bits operations.
>>All the docs I have mention 16 and 32 bits long instructions. How do you perform
>>a move immediate with a 64 bits value if your instruction length is limited to
>>32 bits?
>
>Move immediates are a little silly on RISC processors...
>
>You can't even fill a 32 bit register with a move immediate.
>
>-Tom
So the compiler has to put the data into a static data area, then produce a
'move from address' instruction?
That must be a "pleasure" to program this chip in assembly... :(
Forgive my ignorance about RISC computers...
Christophe
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