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From: stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart Gathman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division
Summary: So what's the big deal?
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Date: 10 Jul 89 23:54:02 GMT
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[ previous poster wants "q,r = x/y" to assign quotient to q, remainder to r ]

Even on fairly stupid compilers,

	q = x / y;
	r = x % y;

results in what you want (unless x & y have side effects - in that case assign
to temporaries).  In the absence of branches, even simple CSE is amazingly good.
-- 
Stuart D. Gathman	<stuart@bms-at.uucp>
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