Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!lll-winken!killer!mit-eddie!bbn!bbn.com!rgoguen From: rgoguen@bbn.com (Robert J Goguen) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: gcc Internals question for port to 3B2 Message-ID: <32821@bbn.COM> Date: 29 Nov 88 19:33:47 GMT Sender: news@bbn.COM Lines: 23 In the gcc internals document the I have a question in the section "Standard Names for Patterns Used in Generation". When you describe the insv instruction you state that operand 2 is the starting bit. Now if operand 2 == 3 does this mean that I start 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ^ | | or do I start 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ^ | | The same question goes for the extv pattern and operand 3. Thanks Bob Goguen