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Re: [PATCH 1/5] PowerPC add initial -mfuture instruction support

From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich at suse dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 23:10:43 +0930
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] PowerPC add initial -mfuture instruction support
References: <20190524013110.GC6820@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20190524013332.GD6820@bubble.grove.modra.org> <5D0B7763020000780015CF3E@prv1-mh.provo.novell.com> <20190620133103.GD3662@bubble.grove.modra.org>

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:01:03PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> Yes the suffix word is don't care with one restriction, which we
> haven't implemented in binutils yet.  It can't be a branch instruction
> encoding.

Well, that's the thinking now.  As with all of the -mfuture support
everything is subject to change so there isn't much reason to
implement the restriction at this point.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

References:
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] PowerPC add initial -mfuture instruction support
  - From: Jan Beulich
- Re: [PATCH 1/5] PowerPC add initial -mfuture instruction support
  - From: Alan Modra

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