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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] cmovne
Date: Sun,  8 Feb 2015 15:37:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17256729babb13da75a585c6bdd97898@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A4C08F0-FE7C-403F-8F66-69D3AAF440A0@gmail.com>

On Sun Feb  8 15:31:26 PST 2015, don.bailey@gmail.com wrote:
> Technically, there are a few instructions that the 9 compilers miss.
> This is generally handled by the BYTE directive (see the asm manual).
>
> Alternatively, adding a new instruction to the lexer/etc is fairly
> trivial.  See diffs between vc and kc, for example.

you can't actually sneak around the linker with BYTE.  try it, you'll see.

i've added many instructions to the various compilers.  i'm just double checking
that it is indeed a valid instruction.  the manual says it is, but that's subject
to my reading comprehension.  :-)

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-08 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-08 23:27 erik quanstrom
2015-02-08 23:36 ` Don Bailey
2015-02-08 23:37   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2015-02-09  0:50     ` Don Bailey
2015-02-08 23:43 ` minux
2015-02-08 23:42   ` erik quanstrom
2015-02-09  0:23     ` minux
2015-02-09  0:29       ` erik quanstrom

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