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   Message 129,366 of 131,241   
   John Savard to All   
   Concertina II Block Headers Made Clearer   
   11 Aug 25 06:55:50   
   
   From: quadibloc@invalid.invalid   
      
   I have taken action to make the documentation of the block headers in the   
   Concertina II ISA clearer.   
   In order for me to keep things straight as I defined the headers, I needed   
   to keep them in a diagram that was in opcode order. But that meant that   
   all the different kinds of headers were jumbled together.   
   So now I have added three diagrams, each one showing only the headers of   
   one of the three basic types, and I use these to head up sections which   
   document the headers of each type separately from those of the other types.   
   The three basic types of header are:   
   Headers for blocks consisting of 32-bit instructions.   
   Headers which cause a block to consist of variable-length instructions.   
   Other headers for blocks that consist of variable-length instructions.   
   I think that this will help to make the system of block headers much   
   clearer.   
      
   John Savard   
      
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