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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: instructions in the Vax not used by Unix assembler
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 08:07:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 08:07:26 1987
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Summary: The wrong answer
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No one should _ever_ have to use a necessarily wasteful subroutine call
to do what the hardware provides.  The only reasonable solution is to
provide macros to break the instruction into .bytes, .words, etc.

-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu or pur-ee!stat-l!cik or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet