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   Message 129,867 of 131,241   
   MitchAlsup to All   
   Re: sign/zero/garbage extension (was: Ti   
   09 Oct 25 15:40:20   
   
   From: user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) posted:   
      
   > kegs@provalid.com (Kent Dickey) writes:   
   > >In article <2025Oct7.210925@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,   
   > >Anton Ertl  wrote:   
   > >>MitchAlsup  writes:   
      
   > No instruction set has a full suite of 32-bit instructions with both   
   > sign-extended and zero-extended results.  They all have workarounds   
   > for the lack of the full suite, with various associated costs that   
   > have to be balanced against the costs of providing the full suite.   
      
   Once I get a workable solution to converts, My 66000 will have.   
   {Sign}×{Size}.   
      
   >   
   > - anton   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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