From 31926fb57994c78b3139df7127e5f577dec922d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:00:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] clarification --- simple_v_extension/appendix.mdwn | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/simple_v_extension/appendix.mdwn b/simple_v_extension/appendix.mdwn index a951d4450..3c07311f4 100644 --- a/simple_v_extension/appendix.mdwn +++ b/simple_v_extension/appendix.mdwn @@ -194,7 +194,9 @@ comprehensive in its effect on instructions. Branch operations are augmented slightly to be a little more like FP Compares (FEQ, FNE etc.), by permitting the cumulation (and storage) of multiple comparisons into a register (taken indirectly from the predicate -table). As such, "ffirst" - fail-on-first - condition mode can be enabled. +table) and enhancing them to branch "consensually" depending on *multiple* +tests. "ffirst" - fail-on-first - condition mode can also be enabled, +to terminate the comparisons early. See ffirst mode in the Predication Table section. There are two registers for the comparison operation, therefore there -- 2.30.2