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- From: tbk@sn.no (Thore Bjerklund Karlsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Find better sollution
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 12:50:33 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
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- (Michael van Elst)
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- >>>The 68060 doesn't have a MOVEP instruction anymore.
-
- >>.... Say no more. Well, it's hardly the programmers fault tha
- >>Motorola removed an instruction without warning.
-
- >*shrug*. No compiler generates that instruction and people with
- >cycle-counting as a hobby can recode their asm-proggies, can't they ? :
-
- What if one of your precious compilers used this instruction?â•—Would it
- still be OK to remove an instruction? Would it be OK to remove SWAP
- because no compiler uses it?
-
- >movep was intended for 6800 style I/O chips that can't be used
- >easily with the 68040 and 68060 anyway.
-
- Not an excuse.
-
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