[CST-2] Comp.arch 1997 p7 q3

[Andrei Legostaev]

Ritchie, Martin - Thanks!


> and does the MIPS ISA have the answer (slide 62)?

That's probably it.  Those instructions seem to have a sllightly different
purpose (unaligned word access) but can be abused for sub-word access.


> Any idea how much of that ISA stuff we need to know? I can just about
> remember some Pentium details, but I can't even remember the chip names
for
> the Alphas and MIPS...

I don't think we need to know features/names of particular chips.  We may be
asked about, say, rotating register windows but not be in the form "what is
interesting about IA-64's register file?".

That's the pattern in the previous years' questions anyway...

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