Re: [PATCH] ppc32 use simplified mmenonics

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-23T01:35:50Z

> I'd rather you went the other way, replacing these
> barely-documented instructions with ones that are
> easy to look up. Motorola has about a zillion of
> these "simplified" instructions. I guess Motorola
> and IBM were jealous of Intel's CISC instructions.

It's just simplified mnemonics, not instructions ;)

> The big problem is this:
> THESE ARE NOT IN THE INDEX!!!!!!

Yah, that sucks, I tend to agree... I've had a hard time in the
"early days" finding some of them in the manuals

> So, if I forget what one of these many instructions
> does, I'll have quite the time paging through the
> manual trying to find it.
>
> If it's not in the index, please avoid it.
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>