ssnop for mips
Ralf Baechle
ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Fri Jul 20 04:43:00 GMT 2001
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:02:18PM -0700, mike stump wrote:
> Can I check this into the release branch as well as mainline?
>
> 2001-07-18 Mike Stump <mrs@wrs.com>
>
> * mips-opc.c (ssnop): While the documentation makes it seem
> like this instruction is new for MIPS32, it is not, it is needed
> on all ISA levels.
While not explicitly documented in the manuals ssnop was available in R8000
and beyond, so preceeds MIPS32 by almost half a decade. I have no idea
why but ssnop is definately part of MIPS IV though not documented. As
such adding ssnop as a MIPS32 instruction is somewhat incorrect.
Ralf
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