Re: 6502 illegal opcodes questions

[usenet@spuddy.org (Stephen Harris)]

John Selck <gpjiweg@t-online.de> wrote:

> Am 12.05.2006, 04:21 Uhr, schrieb Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>:

> > And in any case, depending on the peculiarities of a particular chip
> > implementation is just asking to be locked out of future improvements.

> Like I stated several times now: You can easily do a processor check and
> use different code. On plain 6502 you use the faster routine with illegals
> and on 65816 etc you use a normal routine. It's 5 minutes work to do that.

And now you've introduced program bloat, dual code paths, extra potential for
bugs...

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