These days, LHI serves the purpose much more easily.
Bob
Bill Fairchild wrote:
In a message dated 7/17/2005 9:25:01 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Your comments about "LH r,=H'5'" being an atrocity is certainly on
the mark.
There is at least one case where LH Rx,=H'5' is preferable to LA Rx,5.
The LA instruction can load a maximum value of 4095 into the register, but a
half word could load a much larger number into the register.
<snip>
Bill Fairchild
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