On 2021-07-06 15:11, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jul 6, 2021, at 5:08 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt%Update.UU.SE@localhost> wrote: ... Well, the processor handbook even have the description on how you use EMUL and MUL to do multiplication of two 64-bit values. Without EMUL it becomes a much larger and more tedious process to multiply 64-bit values. But yes, it's only usable for signed multiplications. Which is annoying. (And is the same problem on the PDP-11.)Turning a signed multiply into an unsigned one isn't very hard. Unsigned div is another matter, unfortunately.
Hmm. I tried to figure that one out before, without much success. I've done various silly things like halfing a value if it's too big, and then double the end result, and other silly things. But they all feel rather unelegant.
You have a better way?
And yeah, divide have always been even worse. :-)
Johnny
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