At 8:13 PM -0700 7/29/02, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
>>  In the mean time, someone can go ahead and implement the cmps and
>>  cmpi ops to do string and integer compares respectively.
>
>Do you mean {gt,ge,eq,ne,le,lt}{s,n} conditional branches, or something
>like "cmps Ix, Py, Pz"?  Also, would num-comparisons be more useful than
>int- ones?

cmps Ix, Py, Pz. And it should be a numeric comparison rather than an 
integer one, you're right.

If I thought anyone'd do control flow with it, I'd have a version of 
the op for that, but I don't think we're going to see that, and perl 
doesn't do it, so...
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                                         Dan

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