By: Etienne (etienne_lorrain.delete@this.yahoo.fr), February 5, 2013 7:22 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
> > > > Continued reliance on condition flags.
Paul A. Clayton (paaronclayton.delete@this.gmail.com) on February 4, 2013 8:43 am wrote:
> ARM Thumb has an If-Then instruction with similar semantics.
> Mitch Alsup has proposed (on comp.arch) a more complex semantic than If-Then that
> allowed overlap. Andy Glew has termed this "skip under mask".
All those still assume you have a condition flags, the "skip under mask" instruction
do not do the test itself...
Etienne.
Paul A. Clayton (paaronclayton.delete@this.gmail.com) on February 4, 2013 8:43 am wrote:
> ARM Thumb has an If-Then instruction with similar semantics.
> Mitch Alsup has proposed (on comp.arch) a more complex semantic than If-Then that
> allowed overlap. Andy Glew has termed this "skip under mask".
All those still assume you have a condition flags, the "skip under mask" instruction
do not do the test itself...
Etienne.