unsigned comparisons is surprisingly not that useful due to marshalling
overhead; it's only four bytes to do inline (plus jc), or six for a constant.
Also add some useful top optimisations. Star Trek goes from 39890 to 39450
bytes.
Old .o files stop working if they use floating point. One must
recompile those files. Old files don't call libfp in the correct way,
and may use symbols that I removed from libem. I don't keep old
symbols in libem/flp.s, because a program that pulls both libfp and
flp.s would get "multiply defined" errors in the linker.
I teach mach/i80/ncg/table to use libfp by copying or adapting the
patterns from mach/i86/ncg/table. I did not test all the patterns,
but I did use `ack -mcpm -fp -O4` to compile examples/mandelbrot.c,
then I ran it in the emulator YAZE-AG. It worked, but it was slow.
EM instructions _rol_ and _ror_ do rotate an integer left or right.
Our compilers and optimizers never emit _rol_ nor _ror_, but I might
want to use them in the future.
Add _rol_ and _ror_ to powerpc. Fix `rol 4` and `ror 4` in both i80
and i86, where the rules for `rol 4` and `ror 4` seem to have never
been tested until now.
The code used `sphl` to set the stack pointer, but the correct value
was in de, not hl. Fix by swapping the values of de and hl, so `sphl`
is now correct. When we shrink an integer from 4 to 2 bytes, both
registers de and hl point to copies of the result, but only one
register preserves the stack below the result.
This fixes writehex() in tests/plat/lib/test.c, when I compile it with
ack -mcpm, so it preserves the pointer to "0123456789abcdef", so it
writes hexadecimal digits and not garbage.
This bug goes back to commit 157b243 of Mar 18, 1985, so the bug is
32 years old, and probably the oldest bug that I ever fixed.
These files "magically reappeared" after the conversion from CVS to
Mercurial. The old CVS repository deleted these files but did not
record *when* it deleted these files. The conversion resurrected these
files because they have no history of deletion. These files were
probably deleted before year 1995. The CVS repository begins to record
deletions around 1995.
These files may still appear in older revisions of this Mercurial
repository, when they should already be deleted. There is no way to fix
this, because the CVS repository provides no dates of deletion.
See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29823032