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From: joeo@sharp..westford.ccur.com (Joe Orost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: 68040 status
Summary: MOVE16
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Date: 12 Feb 91 16:56:39 GMT
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In article <55919@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) writes:
>                                                          The problem
>is that once "official" numbers are published, people tend to forget
>all of the caveats about how they came from an ancient compiler that
>had never heard of MOVE16 instructions (for example).

   Other than aligning the stack on a 16-byte boundary, and aligning all
   external data modules on a similar boundary, how does a compiler take
   advantage of the MOVE16 instruction?


				regards,
				joe

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