On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Jerry Callen <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is a short segment of 31-bit code that is generated on the fly by
> another piece of software that I need to call. I don't control that piece
> of software, and I'm putting the results of that computation into an
> above-the-bar chunk of memory for later processing. No I/O.
>
> Since it sounds as if the switching is fairly expensive, I'll see if there
> is some reasonable way to batch the calls, rather than making the
> 64->31->64 switch for every item.
>
> Thanks to all for the replies!
>
> -- Jerry
>
>
​This may well be a silly question, but why switch AMODEs at all? If the
31-bit code is "self contained", then why not just call it with 31-bit
clean values in the registers?​



-- 
The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our
certitude.

Maranatha! <><
John McKown

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