The joys of assembly language

[benjymous]

The following are the kind of instructions you'll find yourself using if you ever have to write assembly code for the Cell processor...

• bihnzd
• bislede
• ceqbi
• rotqmbybi
• vmsummbm

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[Ryan Roberts]

benjymous wrote: Whatever happened to meaningful mnemonics?! Compilers have much better memories for that sort of thing. Doesn't look all that far away from REPNZ STOSDW though..

[Dario Solera]

Thanks to the programmers' God, I never had to write assembly code. ;P

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[Paul Selormey]

benjymous wrote: Whatever happened to meaningful mnemonics?! Reserved for VB ;P Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.

[Mythago]

The best assembler opcode I ever saw for a processor was on the motorola MPC-555. EIEIO, which means Enforce In Order Execution of I/O. Well I thought it was funny...

[Daniel Turini]

I bet an editor that puts a tooltip explaining an instruction would be a killing app for this processor.

[Judah Gabriel Himango]

Ouch, sounds like a barrel of fun. I'm curious, what are you writing for the Cell processor? Doing some game dev work?

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[Gary R Wheeler]

REPNZ STOSDW = REPeat while Non-Zero STOre a String of Double Words. Sounds pretty mnemonic to me :rolleyes:.

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