Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:48:44 -0500 | From | Aaron Tiensivu <> | Subject | Re: CPU options during config |
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> interrupt handler. one of them was "BPI" -- branch pending interrupt -- > which allowed application programmers to identify instructions that > they thought might cause a software exception, and code a branch to > an appropriate error routine. easy, and didn't require any kind of > special signal handling.
I think that could be possible but for the code paths that it would be used for, I think it might be too "bloaty" although I'd love to be proved wrong. :)
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