Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!life!burley From: burley@albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: skip instructions Message-ID: Date: 6 May 91 07:07:44 GMT References: <1182@opus.NMSU.Edu> <1991May05.174307.8952@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Cambridge, MA 02139 Lines: 8 In-reply-to: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us's message of 5 May 91 17:43:07 GMT For what it's worth, one of the arguments I heard way back when as to why branches were better than skips: "it is much easier to verify program correctness when the architecture does not have skip instructions". For the record, I never had any idea what that really meant. :-) -- James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu