From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 12:36:29 PM UTC+8, Joe Monk wrote:   
   > > You can restrict yourself to just using 12 of those 20 available bits   
   > > so that the c compiler generates identical   
   > > assembler, basically.   
   > But you cant restrict the assembler to just using 12 of those 20 bits! Nor   
   the hardware.   
      
   You can restrict the assembler (not IBM's   
   version obviously), but that's irrelevant because   
   the c compiler simply won't generate an instruction   
   that would use more than 12 bits.   
      
   The hardware will never be exposed because   
   of that too.   
      
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