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From: jdege@ (Jeff Dege)
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Subject: Re: Assembly question from turnip
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Date: 1 Nov 90 02:22:48 GMT
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In article <1990Oct29.205140.28826@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>
>>There is no guarantee that the last operation to affect the condition codes is
>>the one you are interested in (the move of the result to D0). 
>
>WHAT? How can you do multitasking at  all, ...

Picture the end of an OS call.

     MOVE.L   RESULT,D0
     MOVE.L   SOMETHINGELSE,D1
     RTS
 
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