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On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:07:55PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Should I move the convenience bit operations back to the arch header, so that
> the M68K guys can have byte-sized flags (which they can use TAS/TST on)?

If you provide some way to override the convenience bit operations,
then I suspect that you can let most folks use the byte ops.  It's
only older alphas that would absolutely have to play games.

Of course, I now have 9 flag bits defined, so I might not go back
to bytes anyway...


r~
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