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Re: assembler man pages ?


On Thursday 01 September 2005 09:40 pm, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > for example, say i wanted quick info on the 'jne' instruction, i
> > would do `man jne` and get back a reference page similar to `man 2
> > close`
>
> Binutils supports a *lot* of different chips.  Which one are you
> referring to?  Do you *really* think it's worth our time to reproduce
> a lot of documentation that the chip manufacturers already publish?
> If you want to know what the JNE instruction does, find the chip's
> programming manual and figure it out.  For the M32C/80, for example,
> e32c80sm.pdf documents JNE as "jump on condition, not equal" on page
> 92.

i never said 'hey, write me some documentation you lazy bums', so settle 
down :P ... i was merely asking if anything *already existed*

i have the reference books for the architectures i'm interested in, it's just 
a hell of a lot easier to run `man blah` than flip through a book
-mike


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