Subject: Re: Alpha assembly question...
To: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/16/2000 11:29:56
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:21:45 -0500
"Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> wrote:
> I was reading through some assembly last night trying to get
> Postgres working. I found an instruction that doesn't appear to
> be in the architecture reference.
>
> Just so I'm clear, what do these instructions do?
>
> bis $1, $2, $3
> or $4, $5, $6
"bis" == logical sum
"or" is an assembler macro for "bis"
The first one is:
$3 = $1 | $2
The second one is:
$6 = $4 | $5
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>