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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:20:06 +1200
From: Bill Currie <bill AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: djasm shift semi bug + proposal
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Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> 
> DJ said:
> > SHLD is "shift left, double precision" - it uses two registers, sort of
> 
> So where does the second l in shlld come from?

It was shldl (easy mistake, part of my concerns), and the second l comes
from long (implying the second `register').

I think I like DJ's suggestion of shldd.  I might make djldq an alias
(for the 64 bit version), but I don't like it due to my work on gcc (`q'
implies quarter rather than quad, I got confused initially on reading
DJ's suggestion).  Anyway, there is *always* a register in this
instruction, so the size (32 or 64 bits) is implied and doesn't really
need encoding in the instruction.

That said, I'm still open to suggestions.

Bill
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Leave others their otherness.