representable in single format?
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3. The first clause of the verbal description of fishmv seems to assume
that the contents of the specified register were produced by fmvis.
Is there any other use of fishmv? If yes, the verbal description should
be generalized. If no, the wording should be explicit about this use.
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4. The instruction names and mnemonics should be more consistent with the
architecture spec. In particular, the architecture spec tends to use
"Move" for instructions that transfer data between registers. Here are
I prefer (a), because I think it's confusing to treat these instructions,
which don't access storage, like instructions that do access storage.
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1. The RFC should be based on the current version of the architecture,
which is V. 3.1B. I believe this has no effect on the substance of the
RFC. But it affects the identities of the instruction-list appendices,
which in V. 3.1B are E, F, G, and H.
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2. Additional affected sections are 1.6.1.6 (additional line for DX-form),
1.6.2 (additional use for d0,d1,d2), and Appendix D (Opcode Maps).
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3. Does the last line of the Summary apply to both instructions or just to
fishmv? I can see why you would want a prefixed version of fmvis, which
would supply the entire 32-bit FP single format value and avoid the need
for fishmv. Why would you want a prefixed version of fishmv?
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4. The Motivation says "Even clearing an FPR to zero presently requires Load".
What about fsub FRT,FRA,FRA?
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5. "FRS" for both instructions should be changed to "FRT". ("FRS" normally
specifies a source register; see Section 1.6.2. I understand that for
fishmv the specified register is both source and target. But "TX,T"
provides precedent for using the "target form" of register specification
for such cases.)
6. The RTL for fmvis should use left arrow for assignment.
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7. The architecture spec (VSX chapter) uses "BFP32" and "BFP64", and the
lower-case versions thereof, for the 32-bit and 64-bit binary FP formats.
The RFC's "FP32" and "FP64" (and lower case of same) should be made
consistent with this usage.
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8. More generally, the style of the verbal description for both instructions
should be made more consistent with the style used in the architecture
spec.
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9. In the first clause of the verbal description of fishmv I think "inserted
into FRS" should be "inserted into the low-order half of the single-
format value corresponding to the contents of FRT".
A similar change should be made in the second sentence of the next
paragraph.
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10. The paragraph before the Programming Note in the fishmv description
says "This is strategically similar to how li combined with oris is used
to construct 32-bit Integers". li combined with oris works only if bit 16
of the desired 32-bit integer is 0. (A better way to construct a 32-bit
integer is to use pli (extended mnemonic for paddi).)
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