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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] MIPS LE fp register ordering in MOVD
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 06:41:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5905828a43a7658265a86f484a46aba6@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJQxxwkLNAQ2M3aTFD3OZQ=X14TMABXGs0ow=i_79S9XYr_ohA@mail.gmail.com>

> You might be able to blame the play station 2 and the two different MIPS
> chips it had. I did two compilers. The FP was very unusual and one was LE
> and the other BE. Inferno port worked well.

Eventually, it seems that the second compiler was somehow absorbed: 0c
became a script to invoke vc, or somesuch.  Could you shed some light
on this?  Or was forsyth involved?  Bell Labs are consistently short
on rationales.

++L





  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-27  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-24 17:20 cherry
2013-12-26 23:46 ` cherry
2013-12-26 23:48   ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-27  0:25     ` cherry
2013-12-27  1:40       ` cinap_lenrek
2013-12-27  3:40         ` cherry
2013-12-30  7:12       ` Skip Tavakkolian
2013-12-27  3:41   ` cherry
2013-12-27  4:32     ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-27  4:41       ` lucio [this message]
2013-12-27 22:32         ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-28  1:22       ` cherry
2013-12-28  1:47         ` Bruce Ellis

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