Assembly or ....

[Jeff MacDonald]

In article <1032 at l.cc.purdue.edu> cik at l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
...
> suppose we want to
>divide a by b, obtaining an integer result i and a remainder c.  I know
>of no machine with this instruction, and this is not that unusual an 
>instruction to demand.  It is cheap in hardware, and extremely expensive
>in software--at least 4 instructions.

Both the 80x86 and 680x0 machines have integer divide instructions
which leave quotient and remainder.  So there.

Think we've beat Herman up enough?
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