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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Re: The little assembler that lies...
Message-ID: <622@lll-crg.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 00:21:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 00:21:28 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 07:46:27 EDT
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Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG group
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> >     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
Yet more proof that they should have designed a RISC!