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Re: New Vax - future directions :-)



On 2021-07-07 15:00, Mouse wrote:
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.

Good point. I never thought of that one (or at least I can't recall reflecting on that).

Still seems a bit odd to me. :-)

  Johnny

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