David Howells writes: > Ummm... On powerpc, I believe rotate-left would be a division as it does the > bit-numbering and the bit direction the opposite way to more familiar CPUs > such as x86.
No. :) "Left" and "right" are relative to the way those of us humans in the Western European cultural tradition write numbers, which is big-endian. So rotate-left always moves bits towards the more significant end of the word. Paul. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
