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From: fwb@demon.siemens.com (Frederic W. Brehm)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Self-modifying code
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Date: 12 Oct 89 16:20:55 GMT
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In article <9175@etana.tut.fi> pl@etana.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti) writes:
>	I've been lately wondering if there is any architecture
>	with possibility to execute instruction indirectly.
>...
>	I mean something like:
>
>		exec r0	; execute instructio in register r0
>...
>	Does anyone know?

The Data General Eclipse (16-bit) had an instruction just like this.  I
don't know if the MV series has one like it.

Fred
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Frederic W. Brehm	Siemens Corporate Research	Princeton, NJ
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