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  Re: Some comments (long) (was: Something else is needed, I think...)
 
Kekoa Proudfoot wrote in message ... (...) Do you think it would be possible with improved firmware to support inline H8 code embedded in a user program? For example, a special byte code could indicate that the following code should be executed (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Some comments (long) (was: Something else is needed, I think...)
 
(...) Good idea! I like it! The only problem I can see with this is I'm not sure if the H8 supports position independant code or not. If it does, then there's no problem. (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Some comments (long) (was: Something else is needed, I think...)
 
(...) You might be able to do this if you were clever about it; you might be able to define an opcode that defines a native subroutine that you can call with another opcode, say, that passes in 16- or 32-bit values in registers and expects you store (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Some comments (long) (was: Something else is needed, I think...)
 
(...) I should clarify this. The 16-bit software multiply takes two 16-bit numbers and stores their product in a 16-bit number. The 32-bit software multiply takes two 32-bit numbers and stores their product in a 32-bit number. The operations are (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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