Re: Conditional Execution (was Re: % in hash table)

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From: James Cownie
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 08:14

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vlefevre@cordeliers (Vincent Lefevre) wrote:
>In article <baum-1610951033230001@piem3.atg.apple.com>, Allen J. Baum (baum@apple.com) wrote:
>> Ignoring conditional branches for them moment:
>>   ALL instructions on the ARM are conditional
>>   PA-RISC has a 'skip the next instruction' in arithmetics,
>>      which is equivalent to making the next instruction conditional
>>   SPARC and ALPHA have conditional move instructions 
>>      (from memory here- could be wrong)
>
>I don't think Sparc has a conditional move: I haven't seen it in
>the papers I have. If someone else has more information about this,
>I'm interested in them.

You need to be clear about which architectural version of SPARC you are talking
about. It is SPARC V9 architecture which has conditional moves, V8 doesn't.

-- Jim

James Cownie
BBN UK Ltd
jcownie@bbn.com

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