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Article #12644Re: Conditional Execution (was Re: % in hash table)
From: Kevin D. Kissell
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 13:28
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 13:28
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James Cownie <jcownie@bbn.com> wrote: >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. Similarly, the MIPS IV instruction set (R8000, R10000) added conditional moves, which had not been present in the earlier versions. -- Opinions expressed may not be Kevin D. Kissell those of the author, let alone Silicon Graphics Core Technology Group those of Silicon Graphics. Cortaillod, Switzerland kevink@neu.sgi.com
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