Re: __divdi3 unresolved + X pointer blocks

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: David Edelsohn <redacted>
Subject: Re: __divdi3 unresolved + X pointer blocks
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:13:16 +0200 (CEST)
cc: Kaoru Fukui <redacted>, Jean-Jacques.Levy@inria.fr,Benjamin
Herrenschmidt [off-list ref],linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, David Edelsohn wrote:

quoted

	You do not seem to have understood my reply.  I will repeat the
important sentence:

	SHIFT IS NOT THE SAME AS DIVIDE FOR SIGNED INTEGERS.

Indeed. That's why you have `logical shift right' and `arithmetic shift right

'.

The former inserts zeroes, the latter inserts a copy of the MSB.

Don't know from memory whether PPC has them...

Thanks your explain.

I alway used them when Z80 Assmble probramming ,long long time ago -:)

Kaoru


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