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Next up, PHP 6 will include ComeFrom.
by ivanstojic 17y ago
Next up, PHP 6 will include ComeFrom.
- kwantam 17y agocomefrom is an excellent and seriously useful instruction. My team has (kind of) implemented it in hardware as a way of patching ROM code in RAM. When the PC becomes equal to an address in the comefrom table, the PC is loaded with a RAM address and execution continues there. If you have a big chunk of code that could need small tweaks, storing it in ROM and implementing a small RAM alongside it saves a lot of chip area. I'm almost 100% sure Freescale does this on some of their 32-bit microcontrollers. Yes, I design ICs. No, I do not work for Freescale.