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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: addq.w #n,sp and a pop quiz
Keywords: C asm addq
Message-ID: <1324@X.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 13:27:00 GMT
References: <5005@bsu-cs.UUCP> <5460@cbmvax.UUCP> <1100@ncar.ucar.edu> <1737@oakhill.UUCP>
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In article <1737@oakhill.UUCP>, davet@oakhill.UUCP (David Trissel) writes:
> 
> Instructions depending on esoteric architectural features such as the above
> separate the men from the boys. Here's another one:
> 
When I first glanced at my screen, I read the above as
"separate the men from the bugs."  I was going to post a comment about
such trivia JOINING the men and the bugs, but decided not to.

> There is only one place in the instruction set where a data register is
> implicitly sign-extended. Where?
> 
And when I saw various people's complaints about how they discovered the
non-intuitive solution to this pop quiz the hard way, I decided to go ahead
and post it anyway.

The answer to such silliness seems to be RISC.
-- 
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