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MIPS had load const to high or low half. More that 40 years ago Transputer had shift-and-load 8 bit constants. Lots of ancient precedents for rare big constan
by TanjB 3y ago
MIPS had load const to high or low half. More that 40 years ago Transputer had shift-and-load 8 bit constants. Lots of ancient precedents for rare big constants.
- classichasclass 3y agoSo does classic PowerPC, SPARC, and many other ISAs. It's the most common way to handle it on RISC. The Power10 prefixed instruction idea just expands on it.