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Re: New Vax - future directions :-)



> Speaking of odd things.  Why on earth did they define a PUSHL
> instruction, but no POPL?

Probably because they anticipated a major fraction of the PUSHLs being
pushing arguments for CALLS, where the RET handles popping.

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