Reproduction micros

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Fri Jul 22 01:23:34 CDT 2016


> An occasionally forgotten feature is that ALU operations also have a S-bit to
> indicate whether they should update the flags based on the result, or leave
> them alone.

Power ISA also has this feature (the so-called "dot" instructions). It also
has special forms of instructions for setting the overflow and carry flags,
when appropriate.

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