Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:58 AM +0200 8/31/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>>First: we don't have any rotate vtables or opcodes. Shall these be >>considered as a TODO? > Yes. It's been floating around but never did get formally added. Ok. Takers wanted. >> rotl Pdest, n, 32 # rotate left in place by n 32-bitwise > These have merit. The only question then is what happens with the > rest of the bits. (If one rotates a 64 bit quantity with a 32-bit > rotate) First, we should probably ask HLL designers. I can imagine two options: 1) rotate whatever is there - don't care about higher bits 2) if higher bits are non-zero, throw an exception context->errors can hold a bit to turn on/off 2) leo
