I wanted another opinion, so I argued with some people on freenode.  :)
 Anyhow, I've decided that having direct access to 15 bits and control over
the remaining 17 is okay, and we can just punt to loading up a register for
everything else.  Also, there will be general single-bit bit manipulate and
test instructions soon too.  In summary, all logical immediates will be
sign-extended.


On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Timothy Normand Miller
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Oh, no.  Not partial writes.  Rather, ANDI does ({16'hffff, I} & A), for
> instance, while the others zero extend.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Le 2013-04-21 19:47, Timothy Normand Miller a écrit :
>>
>>> Also, Im going to stipulate that the immediate logicals leave the high
>>> 16 bits UNAFFECTED.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not very fond of this approach.
>> Partial register writes can become messy.
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