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Hardware Design of x86

Name: Anonymous 2016-11-27 15:11

computers throw interrupt when you divide by 0 instead of returning NaN/Inf/MaxInt
Instructions left from early 80's
shift and rotates with more than 1 cycle latency
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Name: Anonymous 2016-11-27 17:58

instead of returning NaN/Inf
There is no NaN/Inf for integers.

MaxInt
Since when is returning a valid value as an error indication considered a proper practice?

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