25 Feb
2006
25 Feb
'06
8:01 p.m.
Don North wrote:
[Snip]
In most cases however it appears that if DIV overflows the quo and rem
registers are unaltered and the Vbit is set.
SIMH and a real 11/44 (mostly) behave this way. The behavior below
found by Jerome may be an anomaly seen in E11.
Jerome Fine replies:
I responded to the first portion of this post about a week ago.
Shortly after that, John Wilson became directly involved and
clarified that E11 performs the calculations and "changes" the
registers even if the overflow "v" bit is set = 1.
If anyone is interested, John Wilson has posted a sample "plugin"
for E11 at:
http://www.dbit.com/pub/e11/plugin/inst/
in the files: inst.*
Since I am not a PC capable person, I don't have the software tools
to even assemble and link the plugin to produce a DLL file, let along
check out the plugin code.
However, I wrote some additional code for other UMul instructions
along with some UDiv instructions. If anyone is capable on 386
assembly language instructions, I would be VERY grateful if a quick
look at my code seems reasonable.
John Wilson has suggested using http://www.openwatcom.org/ to
provide a WASM and WLINK to produce a DLL. Is anyone
interested in helping me assemble and link the INST.ASM file?
I did not include my additions to the INST.ASM file, but I can
certainly post them to cctalk if there is any interest.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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