Re: Rotating through a four-bit nibble

"Jordan Bradford" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.lego.robotics
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In lugnet.robotics, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> LEGO firmware does not support the concept of shifting.  Originally NQC didn't
> support the concept of shifting.  I pointed out to Dave Baum that he could use
> multiply and divide to support shifting, so he added it to NQC.  It has been
> many years, but I think shifting is only allowed with constant shift amounts.

Why in the world wouldn't the firmware support shifting? The hardware
<http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/binutils/as_236.html certainly does>.

Heh, using multiply and divide to simulate shifting is kind of backwards.
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