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From: jlg@beta.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Shifting question
Message-ID: <20806@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 20 Jul 88 20:38:33 GMT
References: <705@bnr-rsc.UUCP> <11556@steinmetz.ge.com> <2620@wright.mips.COM>
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In article <2620@wright.mips.COM>, earl@mips.COM (Earl Killian) writes:
> [...]                                           It always seemed
> inconsistent to me to look are more than 5 (i.e. log2(bitsperword))
> without looking at all of them.

But log2(bitsperword) is 6!  32 bits is only a half a word
on a 'real' machine :-)

J. Giles
Los Alamos