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Re: PATCH: Fix ll/sc for mips
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: Hiroyuki Machida <machida at sm dot sony dot co dot jp>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:45:02 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix ll/sc for mips
- Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > Gas will fill delay slots. Same object codes will be produced, so I
> > think you don't have to do that by hand.
>
> It will make the code more readable. We don't have to guess what
> the assembler will do.
But you lose a chance for something useful being reordered to the slot.
That might not necessarily be a "nop". Please don't forget of indents
anyway.
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