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From: danh@halley.UUCP (Dan Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: New instructions for RISCs (was Re: Byte ordering)
Message-ID: <668@halley.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 14:40:40 GMT
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Reply-To: danh@halley.UUCP (Dan Hendrickson)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX
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}BTW, does anyone have an instruction format which uses the
}source register specifiers as an immediate small constant
}instead of a register specifier?
}-- 
Every ALU instruction in SPARC can use one of the source register fields
as a small (11 bit?) signed immediate field.  In the MIPS architecture,
there are seperate instructions for instructions which use immediate
values (16 bit signed).