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|    mutazilah@gmail.com to Joe Monk    |
|    Re: stg    |
|    25 Nov 22 19:34:58    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              On Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 11:23:50 AM UTC+8, Joe Monk wrote:       > On Friday, November 25, 2022 at 7:13:55 PM UTC-6, muta...@gmail.com wrote:       > > Something I noticed on the mainframe is that       > > the transition from 32 bit to 64 bit simply       > > involved changing instructions like st (store)       > > to stg (store grand).       > >       > Wrong.       >       > Different instructions, different formats.       >       > ST - RX-a       > STG - RXY-a              The assembler works simply by       adding a G though, which is all I need.              Ok, so the person writing the assembler       may potentially need to change opcodes.              But you could keep the opcodes the same if       you were happy to go pure 64 bit.              Not an actual zarch.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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