🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <7idjht$cj4$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert AH Prins <prinsra@williscorroon.com> wrote:
> This morning I wrote a quick and simple program that, in it's current
> state generates a byte-4-byte equivalent of the opcode table in TP6,
> and although I don't have it installed, BP7. (I'm pretty sure that it
> uses the same table - CAN ANYONE CONFIRM THIS?)
>
> Obviously I need to translate the program into Pascal (I wrote it in
> PL/I on the MF), but it will allow me, with certain restrictions, to
> modify the builtin assembler hash table. Once it's ready, I will make
> it available by email - sorry, don't have a web site. (Franz G, feel
> free to add it to your site!)
>
> As I mentioned in an earlier email about this, I will mercilessly chop
> the five obsolete FPU instructions (F(N)DISI/F(N)ENI/FSETPM) but what
> else would be useful to throw out?
>
> ENTER/LEAVE, FNOP? Some of the synonyms for conditionals & repeat
> prefixes, (REP=REPE=REPZ, REPNE=REPNZ, LOOPE=LOOPZ, LOOPNE=LOOPNZ) and
> some Jcc's have three variants (anyone ever uses JNAE instead of JB?)
>
> And what would be useful to add?
>
> MOVSD/STOSD, CDQ/CWDE, SEGFS/GS, an added $66 to PUSHA/POPA, RDTSC
> without sacrificing stand-alone AAM. Of course, with the program you
> would be able to tailor the table yourself, but I would like to
> provide at least one tried and tested example, so give me your
> suggestions.

As a follow-up, if you use TPC.EXE, (TP V6.00, 69214 bytes, 10/23/90),
I now have a patch to create a version that can directly use SEGFS,
SEGGS, CDQ, CWDE, MOVSD, STOSD & RDTSC. (But no longer supports ENTER,
LEAVE, SAL, FNOP, FSETPM, F(N)DISI or F(N)ENI!)

Email me for a 2706 byte patch file.

BTW, the program used to generate the patches is still MF based, but if
you want the PL/I source, I can send it.

Robert
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Robert AH Prins
prinsra@williscorroon.com


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