On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:20:42AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > 2) Opcode variants with mixed arguments > > Honestly > > acos Nx, Iy > > and tons of other such opcodes are just overkill. If I want a numeric > result, I just pass in a numeric argument. If people really want > that, imcc has already some hooks to create from above > > set $N0, Iy > acos Nx, $N0 > > or convert an int constant to a double constant. > > Well and above opcode isn't just one, these are two due to > constant/non-constant argument addressing.
Heck, why do we even have transcendental maths ops that take integer arguments or return integer results? Can't we kill the lot? For everything that's intrinsically a function on real numbers, just take have N and P register variants. Nicholas Clark
