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| | Dr. Dobb's | 68040 Programming | July 22, 2001 |
 | | The newest member of the 68000 family, the 68040, essentially combines a beefed-up 68030 and the low-level functions of the 68881 floating-point coprocessor onto the same chip. |
 | | This problem is called "cache coherency." The 68040 takes care of this problem with "bus snooping" -- the chip looks at the system bus, and when a write memory cycle is detected, any on-chip cache location containing data for the changed location is marked invalid. |
 | | On the 68040, the only floating-point operations supported are absolute value, add, branch on condition, compare, decrement and branch conditionally, divide, move, move multiple, multiply, negate, nop, restore internal state, save internal state, set on condition, square root, subtract, trap on condition, and test. |
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