Re: 387 emulator hack - mutant AAD trick - any objections?

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Fri May 27 2005 - 07:26:27 EST


On Fri, 27 May 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

> No need to use AAD16, it is
> a) doesnt work on some obscure ancient NEC x86 clones IIRC

Who cares about 16-bit silicon?

> b) is microcoded (slow)

But certainly not worse than the alternatives for these processors which
actually lack the x87 subset.

Maciej
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