proper regw and regrw16?

Ani Joshi ajoshi at shell.unixbox.com
Sat Mar 25 06:00:49 EST 2000


On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>
> > >      3e8:       7c 0b 4f 2c     sthbrx  r0,r11,r9
> > 				  ^^^^^^
> > If it's stHbrx and not stWbrx then you'll probably be in trouble later.
> > and it looks it is sthbrx from the HEX value, otherwise it would be
> > 7c0b4d2c.
> >
>
>  OUCH, bad typo in my defines (how the driver managed to run with this
> for almost a week is something that i can't imagine)

It probably ran because most load/stores don't use all 32bits of the word,
on rage128 many registers (blitting, for example) leave 16bits unused or
reserved.


ani


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