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In article <itqjrg$96c$1@dont-email.me>,
   John Tytgat <this@is.invalid> wrote:
> On 6/16/2011 7:12 PM, Ste (news) wrote:
> > [...] (apart from ARM deprecating
> > the field in the SWI instruction which contains the RISC OS SWI number)...
>
> Do you have a reference for SWI number field being deprecated by ARM ?

Ah, perhaps a poor choice of words. I should really have said it has been
suggested in conversations I've heard in the past that because nothing(!)
uses any value other than zero in that field, they could reclaim a big chunk
of number space for new instructions/encodings.

Whether or not any of this was suggested as something ARM are actually
planning to do is beyond my recollection because the relevant conversations
were years ago.

In summary: I really mean that we shouldn't be surprised to see a future
generation of the ARM architecture that does this and gives RISC OS a
massive problem.

Just like the way that we should be surprised in the future if ARM drop the
ARM instruction set all together and move over to Thumb2 or something...

:-|

Ta,

Steve

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Font_DecodeMenu Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2011-06-14 12:24 +0200
  Re: Font_DecodeMenu Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-14 15:54 +0200
    Re: Font_DecodeMenu Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-06-14 20:52 +0200
    Re: Font_DecodeMenu Paul Sprangers <Paul@sprie.nl> - 2011-06-14 23:56 +0200
  Re: Font_DecodeMenu Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-06-14 22:43 +0100
    Re: Font_DecodeMenu Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-15 06:50 +0200
      Re: Font_DecodeMenu Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-06-15 13:18 +0200
        Re: Font_DecodeMenu Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-15 15:38 +0200
          Re: Font_DecodeMenu Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2011-06-15 17:20 +0100
      Re: Font_DecodeMenu Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-06-15 20:24 +0100
        Re: Font_DecodeMenu "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-06-15 21:19 +0100
          Re: Font_DecodeMenu Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-06-15 22:14 +0100
            Re: Font_DecodeMenu "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-06-16 14:35 +0100
              Re: Font_DecodeMenu Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-16 18:10 +0200
          Re: Font_DecodeMenu Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-16 18:04 +0200
            Re: Font_DecodeMenu Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-16 18:51 +0200
            Re: Font_DecodeMenu "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-06-16 18:12 +0100
              Re: Font_DecodeMenu John Tytgat <this@is.invalid> - 2011-06-21 19:19 +0200
                Re: Font_DecodeMenu Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-06-22 19:18 +0200
                Re: Font_DecodeMenu "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-06-25 17:53 +0100
                Re: Font_DecodeMenu John Tytgat <this@is.invalid> - 2011-06-27 13:06 +0200
        Re: Font_DecodeMenu Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2011-06-15 22:13 +0100

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