On 12/17/2016 7:36 AM, Peter Relson wrote:

I will mention that, unless you are returning to your caller by PR or
perhaps your RB ends, you might want to avoid using a "model PSW" and
instead use "EPSW" in order to make sure that you have all of the current
bits that might conceivably apply (now and in the future). You'd still do
the STNSM approach because the EPSW-captured PSW might have an in-transit
PER bit. Unfortunately EPSW is, I believe, pretty slow.

Yeah. This code was written back in the 1980s before EPSW (which is a GREAT instruction BTW that came out only about 30 years too late) was even a glimmer in some hardware developers eye. ;)

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