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1 Apr
Load Floating-point Single-precision indeXed with Update

Date: Mon, 1 Apr 96 18:17:13 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Load Floating-point Single-precision indeXed with Update

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
From: kptben@aol.com (KPT Ben)(Ben Weiss)
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,alt.folklore.computers,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Funny (was Risque) Mnemonics

 Of course, the PPC architecture defines the instruction:

 "load floating-point single-precision indexed with update"

 with the mnemonic "lfsux".

 Whenever the Mac debugger Macsbug finds this in the disassembly, it adds
 the comment:

  "It's also a bitch, then you die."

 Go figure :)
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