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Subject: Re: Reply from Intel about BSF/BSR

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 05:36:53 02/01/02

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On February 01, 2002 at 06:41:06, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On February 01, 2002 at 06:18:41, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>
>>I would go for the small test as part of the initialization :)
>>Reason is, that 5 years from now, the chips may change and he will have
>>forgotten all abut this little problem, and then he has 100k lines to debug :(
>>
>
>:) Me too, probably. But in 5 years, we will all have been using 64-bit
>processors for some time, so...
>
>/David

Meaning that the code will be rewritten by then anyway?
Well maybe so, but in general I don't like assumtions on how things should
behave, being extra carefull while you write will often pay off 10 fold later in
saved debugging (as though you didn't know:).


-S.



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