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[Jonathan Sweedler]

In article <8938 at winchester.mips.COM> mash at mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
|In article <1032 at l.cc.purdue.edu> cik at l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
|...
|> suppose we want to
|>divide a by b, obtaining an integer result i and a remainder c.  I know
|>of no machine with this instruction, and this is not that unusual an 
|>instruction to demand.  It is cheap in hardware, and extremely expensive
|>in software--at least 4 instructions.
|
|Although I don't necessarily subscribe to Herman's opinions, R2000 divides
|actually do this (leave both results in registers).  

The 32000 series has a DEI (Divide Extended Integer) instruction that
also does this. 

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