On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 08:06 +0100, David Binderman wrote:
> 
> I don't know the code, but given that insn is unsigned long and so
> can go
> past 32 bits, using a cast to unsigned int might throw away the
> possibly important
> upper bits.

our instructions are only ever 32-bits. That xmon code is ancient and
originated from 32-bits stuff. In fact some of Paulus earliest xmons
might even have run on platforms where int is 16 bits :-)

Cheers,
Ben.

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