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From: csc21824@unsvax.UUCP (Jay)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Assembly or ....
Message-ID: <397@unsvax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 88 22:27:11 GMT
References: <949@taux01.UUCP> <606@poseidon.ATT.COM> <622@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: csc21824@unsvax.uucp (Jay)
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Center
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In article <622@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@krafla.UUCP (Einar Indridason) writes:
>In article <606@poseidon.ATT.COM> ech@poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) writes:
>>does anyone have an example of a common processor that DOESN'T give you the
>>remainder and quotient at the same time?  I don't know the Intel chips, so
>>perhaps the original author just knows that the *86 divide doesn't do this.

        The 8086 divide doesn't?  Then I'd like to know why my integer-to
string conversion routine works?  It repeatedly divides the number by 10,
saving the remainder
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