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|    mutazilah@gmail.com to Joe Monk    |
|    Re: stg    |
|    25 Nov 22 21:00:29    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              On Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 12:57:43 PM UTC+8, Joe Monk wrote:       > > 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.       > The instant you use STG you are using 20-bits. Its how the instruction is       defined ... it uses 20 bits.              That depends on your definition.              My code will run on hardware that only       supports 12 bits. Ie ignores the upper 8       bits or throws an error if they are non-zero.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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