?Amongst the new instructions debuting for the z17, this particular pair (Bit Deposit/Extract) piqued my curiosity.
I think these have the potential to be game-changing for some applications. Aside from simple data compression and decompression applications, they could be used to marshal numeric bit-field data to and from high/low words of registers in order to perform numeric operations on them. My guess is that these were implemented for language compilers, but I think they hold great promise for hand-coded assembler applications. Have any of you used these yet? Keven
