Re: Problems building xnu-792
Re: Problems building xnu-792
- Subject: Re: Problems building xnu-792
- From: William Kucharski <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 12:55:33 -0600
On Monday, May 09, 2005, at 07:29AM, Markus Hitter <email@hidden> wrote:
>But 5 parameters instead of 4? I tried to look up the mapping in Google
>as I'm currently resisting to take an in-depth course in PPC assembly
>...
Sometime between when the Motorola PPC books were published and today, the
decision was made to allow a bitmask to be the fourth argument to rlwinm, and
to have the assembler automatically calculate the fourth and fifth arguments to
rlwinm as documented (mask begin/mask end).
This IBM documentation page describes the details:
<http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/rlwinm.htm>
William Kucharski
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