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From: salomon@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Salomon)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: A SPARC architecture manual.
Keywords: Sparc, optimize, question
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.195012.24448@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 20 Mar 91 19:50:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.031322.12128@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <24367@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Mar19.214110.23955@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <1991Mar19.214110.23955@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> mwb2c@euclid.acc.Virginia.EDU (Mark W. Brunkhart) writes:
>
>I had a lot of trouble getting a SPARC architecture manual out of SUN
>this winter.  [...]   After I finally found
>someone who knew what the manual was, no less that it did exist,
>they were nice enough to send me a copy free.  

I know the feeling.  The toughest thing is trying to explain the
difference between the assembler language manual, which is easy to
get, and the architecture manual.  One of the problems is that these
days, only compiler writers need architecture manuals.
-- 

Dan Salomon -- salomon@ccu.UManitoba.CA
               Dept. of Computer Science / University of Manitoba
	       Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada  R3T 2N2 / (204) 275-6682