Re: CPU options during config

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:48:44 -0500


> interrupt handler. one of them was "BPI" -- branch pending interrupt --
> which allowed application programmers to identify instructions that
> they thought might cause a software exception, and code a branch to
> an appropriate error routine. easy, and didn't require any kind of
> special signal handling.

I think that could be possible but for the code paths that it would be used
for, I think it might be too "bloaty" although I'd love to be proved wrong. :)

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