24 Aug
2021
24 Aug
'21
6:47 a.m.
At 04:13 AM 8/24/2021, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
move.b ([0x12345678, %pc, %d0.w*8], 0x9abcdef0),
([0x87654321, %sp], %a0*4, 0x0fedcba9)
And which language and compiler case was this aimed at?
Wasn't that a primary driver for complex CISC instructions? That if it
happened often enough, it would be faster or smaller as a single instruction?
(Yet Amiga owners used to poke fun at PC owners with
their excessively
complex x86, which has simpler addressing modes.)
I dunno, 68000 seemed like PDP-11 to me, and I often say one of the big reasons
I quit a particular job was the prospect of my role changing to having to write
80x86 assembler all day.
And yes I quit that job to become an Amiga magazine writer. :-)
- John