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From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Tue Apr 23 12:17:15 2002

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:

> "Peter C. Wallace" wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >
> > SNIP-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > > Well, you CAN design in a core for which you've already got an assembler.
> >
> > Also, if you use a table driven assembler, it takes all of about 20
> > minutes to generate a table for a totally new architecture...
> >
> > Peter Wallace
>
> Unless you have say a 12 or 18 bit computer... most table assemblers are
> 16 or 32 bit
> ints.
>
> --
> Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
> www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
>


The int size is not a big deal and can easily be worked around. Macros can
easily do the needed range checking, sign extension, etc etc...


Peter Wallace
Received on Tue Apr 23 2002 - 12:17:15 BST