Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:39:12 -0500 Message-ID: <4E155490.70503@SPAM.comp-arch.net> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:39:12 -0700 From: "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" Reply-To: andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net Organization: comp-arch.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101013 Thunderbird/3.1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: The Indexed Instruction Problem Solved! References: <4E15524B.7090509@SPAM.comp-arch.net> <4E1552A7.2020305@SPAM.comp-arch.net> <4E15545A.2090704@SPAM.comp-arch.net> In-Reply-To: <4E15545A.2090704@SPAM.comp-arch.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-ubAMBj4kjbxq2NSKIoOnhbCEgh2xrDyHzhgkxlzYBFscmDV+O9DrA6cim3cV2ao6QHJoScYGk0AvIX7!NuBl+mnHJSwU+BKNQeoupXhU07ZhGlT5+xF0SNh6+BLFJlVH6W/tmyt/ X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2048 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.arch:2401 On 7/6/2011 11:38 PM, Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote: > By the way, I am also collecting addressing modes for a different article. > > The standard ones. > > But especially the less standard address modes, such as > > * Double Indirect M[ M[reg+offset] +offset ] > which I suggested long ago back in the days of AI architectures, > as an optimization for "handles" > > along with a doubly indirect cache, > to eliminate the pointer dereferencing. > > > What other blasts from the past? VAX and M68K and NS32K... I'm also collecting instructions - although I have a list started that I have been meaning to post. Realized just now that I had forgotten LEA.