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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