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From: gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Gilbert)
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Date: 7 Jun 91 07:35:37 GMT
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In <1991Jun6.112309.89@and.cs.liv.ac.uk> rkl@and.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:

>> There was some rumours about new ARM-assembler-commands. 

>Who started these rumours ? :-) I thought the ARM3 had the same instruction
>set as the ARM2. I guess it's all this stuff about the NV conditional flag
>(which I never (sic) use myself)...

There is a new command called SWAP - or something to that effect which swaps
something to do with memory and registers - this is documented in the new
VLSI databooks - but Acorn have given severe warnings to all there developers
not to touch it.

Dave
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