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Re: Need advice on bounds checking approaches
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 11:07:11PM -0700, Greg McGary wrote:
> > For i386, it makes sense the use the `bound' instruction.
>
> I should qualify that: `bound' is optimal for space, but
> it might run faster to decompose into register compares.
`bound' is a horribly slow instruction on all processors.
> Add PA, C[34]x and MIPS to that list. Others can be simulated with
> conditional branches around unconditional traps.
Alpha has a particular sequence that's supposed to be
used to specifically report out of bounds conditions:
ldi $16, GEN_SUBRNG
call_pal gentrap
r~