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Article #21811Re: MIPS R[23]000 and Kane's book
From: Jim McKie
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 03:46
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 03:46
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In response to <21378@mimsy.umd.edu>: Kane's book it truly awful, it is useless as a programming aide for the R[23]000. There are errors, contradictions and omissions. Particularly amusing is the description of the MTHI and MTLO instructions - read them both then try to write exception handling code. Also, the instruction opcode bit encoding tables are possibly the most obscure way the information could be presented. Fortunately, there is a new edition in the works, which we are assured will have many of the problems fixed. However, to be fair, it does mention that placing a branch instruction in a branch-delay slot is undefined (page A-7), and 'noreorder' is (indirectly) defined on pages C-5 and C-6. Jim McKie research!jmk -or- jmk@research.att.com Bell Labs
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!jmk From: jmk@alice.UUCP (Jim McKie) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: MIPS R[23]000 and Kane's book Message-ID: <10279@alice.UUCP> Date: 22 Dec 89 03:46:55 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 20