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From: rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: CDC FORTRAN trivia questions
Keywords: arithmetic if logical
Message-ID: <7548@well.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 19:27:43 GMT
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I believe the old RUN compiler would generate code to test
the number of 1 bits in a register.  If this was 60, the result
was true.  (The 6600 hardware had a CXi Xj  instruction to count
the number of 1 bits in Xj and leave that number in Xi).
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...Richard Friedman [rchrd]                         
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