This is one of the small things that processor vendors can do to make the life of compiler developers (and anyone writing low level code) much easier. "Where's that ISA document again?" becomes "Let's use google to find the instruction." ... and there was much rejoicing.https://twitter.com/alastair_d_reid/status/1014604328466878464 …
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If you want a local copy, download the tarball from https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/a-profile/exploration-tools …, all the HTML is in there plus XML if you want instruction encodings, etc.
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I really just want the convenience of typing arm + the insn mnemotic in Google and having a clean, fast, uncluttered page with all the info come up.
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If I cared that much about ARM specifically, yes I could doctor a local copy, but the effort needed to do that for everything I occasionally need doesn't scale.
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See here for the right way to document an ISA: http://shared-ptr.com/sh_insns.html
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Meh. I like my ISA specs executable, testable, usable for formal verification of hardware, ... (Oh, ok, I'll admit it, I do have a soft spot for the one-page processor specs of my youth too.)
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Also blackhat-SEO-attacking their own docs with tens of different variants for obscure and irrelevant-to-most-readers cpu models rather than a single clean unified set of pages.
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