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From: ksbszabo@wateng.UUCP (Kevin Szabo)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: The little assembler that lies...
Message-ID: <2465@wateng.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Jun-85 02:05:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: wateng.2465
Posted: Sun Jun  2 02:05:58 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Jun-85 04:28:11 EDT
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Reply-To: ksbszabo@wateng.UUCP (Kevin Szabo)
Organization: VLSI Group, U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

>     The  BELLMAC-32  processor  (a.k.a.  WE-3200x)  has  an
>instruction,  called  RESTORE which restores a set of regis-
>ters from the stack....... However, the as assembler
>insists on mapping  this  single  instruction  to  up  to  7
>instructions.......???

Another possibility is that the RESTORE instruction
might not operate properly for all CPU's.  Maybe the assembler is working
around a buggy mask set?
			Kevin
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Kevin Szabo  watmath!wateng!ksbszabo (U of Waterloo VLSI Group, Waterloo Ont.)