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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Endian reversing MOVEs
Message-ID: <772@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 89 17:14:59 GMT
References: <759@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <MXvZBhy00W428s8WI0@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <MXvZBhy00W428s8WI0@andrew.cmu.edu> jk3k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Keane) writes:
>John Hascall writes:
>> ;
>> ;     Move and Reverse Endian-ness Longword
>> ;
           [....]
>That's 11 memory references for something which has nothing to do with memory.
>It only takes 6 instructions (0 memory references) on the RT.

   Well, if you have a better method, then by all means post it.

   BTW, I could do it in less than 11, if I assumed somethings about
   the addressing mode of the operands and/or the availability of
   a register to work in, but for my situation I neeeded a completely
   general method.

   John Hascall