Modern PowerPC Assembly?

[Sven LUTHER]

On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:34:21AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
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> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Sean Chitwood wrote:
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> > Can anyone recommend a book or website for PPC Assembly Programming? 
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> It depends on what you exactly mean and your level. For smart tricks look
> for the Compiler Writer's Guide somewhere on IBM's site. I've personnally
> learnt PPC assembly from reading the architecture specification and got
> some more useful tricks from the Compiler Writer's Guide.
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> <Shameless plug> 
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> For an example of a fairly large (but still comprehensible IMHO) assembly
> program, you may have a look at my em86 program on ftp://vlab1.iram.es.
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> This is an emulator for x86 BIOSes which allows me to initialize my S3.
> It's quite heavily commented and the emulation of flags has been designed
> to make clever use of rlwimi and cntlzw instructions. OTOH the decoding
> of addressing modes is quite awful spaghetti (but this was faster than 
> indirect branches). Plus the mixture of little and big endian made it very
> funny to write...
> 

Gabriel, ...

Do you think it would be possible to use your emulator to have a ppc
based dosemu ?

Not that i have time for it right now, but ...

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER

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