Re: gcc support of mips32 release 2

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> 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
> 
> And I haven't even started bitching about CALLM's bloat over jsr on a
> system with MMU disabled or the fantastic complexities it offers with
> all gadgets enabled.  Probably desigend for MACH but in the end just
> useless no known OS used them and Moto removed them again for the 030.

 But m68k isn't exactly RISC and high code density was a priority over
microcode simplicty (or absence) for the architecture.

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