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[Dave Airlie]

I've only one thing to say...

branch delay slots ... *shudder*....

in pseudo dave-assembly (a combination of C, VAX/MIPS/x86/ARM asms)

	mov 56, r1  # put 56 into r1
	br  label   # branch to label
	inc r1
label:  printf r1

guess what r1 is at this stage? 56 taking bets? no it's 57... the increase
instruction gets executed... it still makes my brain violently ill even 2
or 3 years later (and I'm no longer active on Linux/MIPS)...

Dave.


> > i agree about the x86. but 68k?? MIPS is the nicest..¹
>
>  I thought mips asm for a while. It's lovely. Nearly as nice as m68k.
>
> Kate
>
>

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David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person