Re: [MiNT] M68020 bn_asm

[Richard Zidlicky <Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:13:58PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
 
> Seems like I'm getting a lot of repeated emails from this list. But anyway,
> I don't see how using the 32x32=32 instructions can save any steps. If you
> use it with 32x16 data you are still going to get a 48 bit result and lose
> the upper 16 bits of that. You will still need a total of 3 multiplies to
> recover the lost bits and get the correct answer.

you are right, the 32x32 doesn't help anything, I have even looked
into motorolas 060 emulation library.

Seems some emails to the list got delayed for pretty long, the duplicates 
are normal when people have cc'd you. 

Richard