The Old New Thing

The PowerPC 600 series, part 10: Passing parameters, function prologues and epilogues

August 17, 2018 Aug 17, 2018 08/17/18

Raymond Chen

The most dangerous parts of flying a function are take-off and landing.

The PowerPC 600 series, part 9: The table of contents

August 16, 2018 Aug 16, 2018 08/16/18

Raymond Chen

Finding your bearings.

The PowerPC 600 series, part 8: Control transfer

August 15, 2018 Aug 15, 2018 08/15/18

Raymond Chen

Jump around.

The PowerPC 600 series, part 7: Atomic memory access and cache coherency

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18

Raymond Chen

How to avoid a break-up.

The PowerPC 600 series, part 6: Memory access

August 13, 2018 Aug 13, 2018 08/13/18

Raymond Chen

Load 'em up.

The PowerPC 600 series, part 5: Rotates and shifts

August 10, 2018 Aug 10, 2018 08/10/18

Raymond Chen

Get out your Swiss army knife.

The PowerPC 600 series, part 4: Bitwise operations and constants

August 9, 2018 Aug 9, 2018 08/9/18

Raymond Chen

Twiddling around.

The PowerPC 600 series, part 3: Arithmetic

August 8, 2018 Aug 8, 2018 08/8/18

Raymond Chen

Who knew there were so many ways to add numbers.

The PowerPC 600 series, part 2: Condition registers and the integer exception register

August 7, 2018 Aug 7, 2018 08/7/18

Raymond Chen

Keeping track of things that happened.

The PowerPC 600 series, part 1: Introduction

August 6, 2018 Aug 6, 2018 08/6/18

Raymond Chen

Here we go again.