From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("")
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 15:29:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15176.57025.611441.820947@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010708155518.A23324@hq2>
In-Reply-To: <9i50uf$tla$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <20010708155518.A23324@hq2>
Victor Yodaiken writes:
> This is something I don't get: I never understood why 32bit risc designers
> were so damn obstinate about "every instruction fits in 32 bits"
> and refused to have "call 32 bit immediate given in next word" not
> to mention a "load 32bit immediate given in next word".
Sparc has such an instruction, in fact the instruction and the 32-bit
immediate fit in a single 32-bit instruction (since the immediate is
guarenteed to be modulo 4 you have some extra bits for the instruction
opcode itself).
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-08 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-04 3:37 Why Plan 9 C compilers don't have asm("") Rick Hohensee
2001-07-04 3:36 ` Olivier Galibert
2001-07-04 6:24 ` Cort Dougan
2001-07-04 8:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-07-04 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-06 8:38 ` Cort Dougan
2001-07-06 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-06 20:02 ` Cort Dougan
2001-07-08 21:55 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-07-08 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-09 1:22 ` Johan Kullstam
2001-07-08 22:29 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-07-06 11:43 ` David S. Miller
2001-07-21 22:10 ` Richard Henderson
2001-07-22 3:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-22 3:59 ` Mike Castle
2001-07-22 6:49 ` Richard Henderson
2001-07-22 7:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-22 15:53 ` Richard Henderson
2001-07-22 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-04 7:15 ` pazke
2001-07-04 17:32 ` Don't feed the trooll [offtopic] " Ben LaHaise
2001-07-05 1:02 ` Michael Meissner
2001-07-05 1:54 ` Rick Hohensee
2001-07-05 16:54 ` Michael Meissner
2001-07-04 10:10 Rick Hohensee
2001-07-05 3:26 Rick Hohensee
2001-07-06 17:24 Rick Hohensee
2001-07-06 23:54 ` David S. Miller
2001-07-07 0:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-07-07 0:37 ` David S. Miller
2001-07-07 6:16 Rick Hohensee
[not found] <mailman.994629840.17424.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-07-09 0:08 ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-07-09 0:28 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-07-09 3:03 Rick Hohensee
2001-07-23 4:39 Rick Hohensee
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