In <[email protected]>, on 12/30/2011
at 07:01 AM, Steve Comstock <[email protected]> said:
>the consistency is not what I, personally, would like.
I don't see the inconsistency in what you mentioned. I agree that the
definitions should precede the use, or, at the least, a reference
prior to a definition should include a forward citation of the
defining text.
> In that same table, TRAP2 and TRAP4 have characteristic
> 'SO' which says "Special-operation exception" and I find
> ambiguous: these instructions will not raise a
> 'Privileged-operation exception', according to the table,
> so they are not privileged. Neither fish nor fowl, eh?
Of course not, they're cattle. Privileged, semi-privileged and
unprivileged are three cases, not two. Aren't TRAP and TRAP4
conceptually similar to MC?
>So, this is the kind of thing I find difficult and in need of
>clarification.
RCF?
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