Subject: Re: Booting on my PowerBook 165c
To: None <eldee@ix.netcom.com, port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG, rnestor@metronet.com>
From: Alan Larson <larson@net.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/18/1996 09:14:17
> From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com>
> systems. I was able to isolate the problem to a "movl a0@,a0 ; bne xxx"
> sequence. One would assume that the Condition Codes would be properly set
> based on the results placed into Register a0, but that wasn't happening.
> The Data Book seems to indicate the Condition Codes are set using some
> bizzare DST AND ^SRC sequence which obviously works in most cases, but
> breaks if the instruction execution changes the register used to fetch
> the source operand.
Interesting. My data book says that if the destination is an address
register, that the condition codes are not changed.
Alan