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- From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
- Subject: Re: Indexing in microprocessors
- Message-ID: <08jn8-q.feustel@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 00:43:30 GMT
- Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
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- ugurdag@ces.cwru.edu (Fatih Ugurdag) writes:
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- >Is there any microprocessor in which we can access registers in an
- >indexed fashion such as
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- >"store source_register,register[index_register]"
- >if index_register holds the value of 3 then this becomes
- >"store source_register,register3"
- >This way we can support array operations in the register file.
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- I think several pdp computers (including the pdp11) had this
- capability as the registers could be addresses as memory locations.
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- Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
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