Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing

On 21/08/2024 23:43, Brian Gregory wrote:

On 17/08/2024 08:22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Or, you could bring back the old PDP-8 trick, of having the jump address
be in the *current page*. That means the upper bits are taken from the
current program counter.

 That must be damn annoying to program in assembler.
Probably slows compilers down a fair but too.
 

IIRC 8086 was the same for conditional jumps.
In fact the whole small model thing was coding for a 64k page.
There were a few instructions that worked across pages...but my memory is dim.
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