>> It is a bug for a processor to have any unassigned codes. > >In what way is it a bug? If all the codes are assigned, then future >extensions become impossible.
Unassigned OP codes are properly given no-op execution and are indicated as "reserved" in the programming documentation. Best Regards, JohnT ------------------------------------------------------ "Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility." Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .