My LRU queue bug is continuing to puzzle me – and it’s not as simple as a data misalignment. In fact it does not appear to be a data misalignment issue at all: before I was trapping a lot of hardware exceptions under that header because it was a common fault when I got the code wrong, but a closer examination showed it to be an illegal opcode exception.
How that could be caused by the size of the local memory we were simulating was beyond me – but perhaps some code was being pushed out of alignment and an illegal instruction created, I thought.
But that does not appear to be the issue at all – in fact the really puzzling thing is that the exact same string of opcodes at the same addresses runs without a problem in the version with the functional memory sizes as with the “broken” memory sizes.
The only difference seems to be that when the broken code (ie the setup with the non 
It looks like it might be a bug in the simulator itself – and having written that I am hoping that the bad workman’s curse now befalls me and I quickly find it was all my fault to begin with. But as of now I am drawing a blank.
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