Re: [f-cpu] register set

[Juergen Goeritz <goeritz@oekomm.de>]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Michael Riepe wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:23:31AM +0100, Juergen Goeritz wrote:
> [...]
> > I worked a lot with table driven input languages. Contrary to
> > VHDL you see at the first view how the signals behave. With VHDL
> > you first have to activate your inner interpreter to analyse the
> > code before you have the essence. With tables you take one look
> > and you have the essence. With tables the outputs are not hidden
> > behind a program structure.
> 
> Did you ever write a transition table for a 64-bit multiplier?

No, god beware! But I worked with a tool where you could
make small units and connect several with local variables.
The compiler could keep or flatten these local variables
in the optimization process afterwards, depending whether
you wanted to have them physically available for testing
or not.

JG

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