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There's a blog page somewhere that's a rant for implementing saturating and other arithmetic modes. Would be a really good idea. Main one is interrupt on overf
by R0b0t1 5y ago
There's a blog page somewhere that's a rant for implementing saturating and other arithmetic modes. Would be a really good idea.
Main one is interrupt on overflow.
- imtringued 5y agoI agree. A lot of software only wants protection against overflows but does not depend on them for functionality. If something wants to read out the carry bit, it should be explicit and although it is unfortunate, indicating that requires a full instruction.