On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:03:20 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >.... Macro-driven machinery for >coping with the unavailability of machine instructions can be generic. > Once put in place it is reusable.
I don't question the value of using macro-driven machinery for generating the code to emulate instructions. However, in OCO code, coping with the unavailability of machine instructions must be done at run time, not at assembly time. >The judgment that the needs of retrograde, trailing-edge shops should >be addressed is, in itself, unexceptionable. The judgment that this >should be done by depriving leading-edge shops of new facilities is >not. I don't follow the logic of this. Can you provide a concrete example of how a customer is deprived of a new facility because my code doesn't use that facility? -- Tom Marchant
