Stop comparing apples to oranges

EduardoS (no@spam.com) on 5/22/07 wrote:
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>An AMD's macro-op can have up to, and in this order:
>An address calculation, a load, an operation and a store

"Can have"? I don't get it. I would think an address calculation bolongs to the _execution_ of a macro-op.

>But AMD only call uop the address calculation and the store.

Hmmm, AMD docs say:

"A macro-op is a fixed-length instruction that:
•Expresses, at most, one integer or floating-point operation and one load and/or store operation.
•Is the primary unit of work managed (that is, dispatched and retired) by the processor.

A micro-op is a fixed-length instruction that:
•Expresses one and only one of the primitive operations that the processor can perform (for example, a load).
•Is executed by the processor’s execution units."

>Intel fused-uop can be a load+exec or store adress+store data, Intel call a load
>uop the entire process of calculating and address and loading the data.

And what do you think how an AMD processor is executing f.ex. a "load" micro-op?

ps. why do you say "Stop comparing apples to oranges"? Where I handled the two firm's given terms like there were the same, or so?