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Re: Power 7 CPU - 8 cores
« on: September 04, 2012, 02:40:19 AM »
Quote from: commodorejohn;706478
I don't know of any processor that supports breaking for an interrupt mid-instruction - that would be overly complex to implement, introduce a highly undesirable degree of non-determinacy, and not get you anything more than slightly lower interrupt latency for the trouble.


Doing it for an interrupt is unnecessary, but a 68010 or above will stop mid-instruction, save the processor state on the stack, and allow you to resume the failed instruction on a bus error.