Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: register save Message-ID: Date: 7 Mar 91 13:44:30 GMT References: <3219@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1991Mar6.163348.13003@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <1991Mar6.163348.13003@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> npw@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Nicholas Wilt) writes: > The Motorola 68881 architecture's FMOVEM instruction has a mechanism to > do something like this. I've never heard of anyone using it, though. I understand it can be used to implement a fast memmov() routine. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"