Re: [f-cpu] Re: Floating-Point?

[Michael Riepe <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:15:33PM -0600, Ben Franchuk wrote:
[...]
> Ok what about instruction decoding of the opcode in a configuration
> register with each setup modifying the fields used?
> version 1 - endian bit active high
> version 2 - endian bit active low
> ( Special register xor endian flag ).

No, no, three times NO!

Can you imagine what happens when a piece of code runs with the wrong
configuration settings?  *kaboom* FUBAR.

Don't you remember the `D' flag in Intel's x86?

Let's not duplicate this insanity.  A configuration register should
NEVER affect the semantics of a program.  The configurable translation
(size bits -> register size) is already too much, from a programmer's
point of view.

-- 
 Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
 "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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