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From: jangr@microsoft.UUCP (Jan Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: i860 overview (long) (oops)
Message-ID: <809@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 89 15:31:55 GMT
References: <807@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: jangr@microsoft.UUCP (Jan Gray)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <807@microsoft.UUCP>, I write:
>  * 8, 16, 32 bit integer load/store insns, operands must be appropriately
>    aligned; byte or word values are sign extended on load.  [I hope you
>    don't use "unsigned char" too much...]
What an ultra-maroon.  I don't know what I was thinking, but you need merely
"and" the result of the load with 0xFF to load a byte as an unsigned.

Jan Gray  uunet!microsoft!jangr  Microsoft Corp., Redmond Wash.  206-882-8080