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- 2020-12-11, 8:38:51
- Forum: Agner's CPU blog
- Topic: Why do some instruction sets include bit shifts but not bit rotations?
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Re: Why do some instruction sets include bit shifts but not bit rotations?
You can make a rotate from two shifts and an or. And there used to be no native rotate in C/C++ so it matched the language capability closely