transputer internals (was Re: Pentium for Non-PC)

[Alexey Toptygin]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
>> Really? I've read my copy of "Transputer Instruction Set: A Compiler
>> Writer's Guide" cover to cover, and I don't recall such an instruction.
>> I think there's one that lets you load the address of the bottom of
>> on-chip RAM, but that won't distinguish the other features...
> 
> Its undocumented...
> Its lddevid.  Look at the startup code (bootstrap) in the C compiler 
> and/or OCCAM compiler to see how it is used...

<groan> I hope there aren't a lot of undocumented instructions. You'd 
think the instruction set reference would tell you about the instructions 
used by the vendor's own compiler...

When you say C Compiler and OCCAM compiler, do you mean the "SGS-Thomson 
Transputer ANSI C Toolset" and "SGS-Thomson Transputer Occam 2.1 Toolset" 
you've got product info for on your page? I don't have either of those 
(or any others for that matter), could I get a copy from you?

BTW, your mailer seems to add an extra copy of cctalk@ to the To: field 
every time you reply.

 			Alexey