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Re: Patch to rename SH mulu and muls instructions
- To: nickc@cygnus.co.uk
- Subject: Re: Patch to rename SH mulu and muls instructions
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:16:41 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: ian@zembu.com, amylaar@cygnus.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Hi Ian,
>
> : For a change like this, I would normally recommend adding the new
> : forms of the instructions without replacing the old ones. If you
> : remove the old ones, then it is possible that existing working code
> : may suddenly fail to assemble. This seems a particular danger since
> : you mention a corresponding gcc patch.
>
> Easy enough to do. What do you think of this version of the patch ?
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
>
> Tue Sep 7 15:34:27 1999 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
>
> * opcodes/sh-opc.h: Rename mulu to mulu.w and muls to muls.w.
Looks all right to me.