Re: MIPS: Disabling "div" traps in GAS

["Marshall B. Rogers" <mbr at 64 dot vg>]

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

> I am not sure I understand your question (e.g. is this C you're
> compiling, inline assembly or assembly?). ?In the *assembler* we make
> the decision whether to treat div as macro (and add the divide-by-zero
> check) or as the the machine insn itself based on the destination
> operand. ?In order to assemble into the machine insn without the check
> use the three register-operand version with zero as the destination
> register.

Sorry about the ambiguity - I am assembling .S files (but doing so
through GCC). Using $0 as the destination solved the problem.

> Right, this is to be consistent with how we expect the same thing on
> input to the assembler.

I can see that now. I should have taken a hint from the disassembly as
to the correct way to write the instruction, heh.

Thanks so much!

Warm regards,
Marshall