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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Re: The little assembler that lies...
Message-ID: <2048@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 02:58:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 02:58:18 1985
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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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!

Intentionally, you mean.
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    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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