Re: gcc support of mips32 release 2

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 02:18:01PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> >  As a side note, it makes me wonder where the borderline of the RISC
> > actually is.  Even Intel abandoned support for bit insert/extract
> > instructions after an initial attempt for the i386.  They figured out the
> > implementation was too complicated. ;-)
>
> Take a look at the 68020 to see where instruction set madness can lead:
>
>       movel   ([42, a0, d0.2*2],123), ([43, a0, d0.2*2], 22)
>       bfextu  ([42, a0, d0.2*2],123){8:8}, d2

These instructions didn't complete in 1 cycle, while the new RISCies do.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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