Re: [ILUG] Membership

From: Dave Airlie (airlied at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Wed 15 Aug 2001 - 14:00:08 IST

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I've only one thing to say...

branch delay slots ... *shudder*....

in pseudo dave-assembly (a combination of C, VAX/MIPS/x86/ARM asms)

        mov 56, r1 # put 56 into r1
        br label # branch to label
        inc r1
label: printf r1

guess what r1 is at this stage? 56 taking bets? no it's 57... the increase
instruction gets executed... it still makes my brain violently ill even 2
or 3 years later (and I'm no longer active on Linux/MIPS)...

Dave.

> > i agree about the x86. but 68k?? MIPS is the nicest..¹
>
> I thought mips asm for a while. It's lovely. Nearly as nice as m68k.
>
> Kate
>
>

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at domain skynet.ie
pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person

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