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Every example under "Instruction types" looks like a combination of 2 (or more) instructions. "Do this AND do that".
by rambojazz 7y ago
Every example under "Instruction types" looks like a combination of 2 (or more) instructions. "Do this AND do that".
- saagarjha 7y agoOf course, taken to the logical extreme we can have the "RISC OISC", which is just an instruction that interprets the operand as a fixed-width instruction for a RISC architecture ;)
- int_19h 7y agoWhether something does one or several things largely depends on your perspective. You might think of ADD as a single instruction, but it fiddles with a lot of bits... This is "one instruction" in a sense of having only a single opcode.