Obviously it's for little-Endian 24-bit addressing mode!

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 3:18 PM Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 08:35, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I cannot answer your question, it is probably depending on how the
> > hardware works on different machines.
> >
> > Another question: what is the purpose of this instruction?
>
>
> I think that's what the OP was asking.
>
> Is it executed that often that it is worthwhile to make an instruction to
> > replace 2 instructions (Load+AND, MOVE+AND) or is there another reason?
> >
>
> In fact there is an earlier Load and AND instruction LAN/LANG that can do
> just the same thing in one instruction, though it also sets the condition
> code based on the result, and requires full or double word alignment, which
> LZRF/LZRG do not.
>
> Paging Dan Greiner...
>
> Tony H.
>
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