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From: dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: 680x0 instructions (was: '040 vs SPARC)
Message-ID: <645@ssp11.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 12 Feb 90 10:17:14 GMT
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <604@bbxsda.UUCP> scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:
>Well, it doesn't take much to find instructions on a 680x0 that are
>not used by a C compiler.  However, my code tends to do a lot of
Agreed, but I think there is more than C, so for example instructions like
ABCD, NBCD and SBCD which are not used by C seem very handy when using COBOL.
I guess for some other instructions this holds also (not necessarily COBOL,
but for FORTRAN etc). At least I always though that CISC does not mean:
C Instruction Set Computer :-)


>structure accesses with pointers such as "pointer->field".  The
>68020 double-indirect-with-offset addressing mode is a real life saver [...]
Again agreed.
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