[patch] change to MIPS 4650 instruction support

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:34:35PM -0800, Eric Christopher wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > I envision the CPU argument setting defaults for a collection of
> > extension flags for all sorts of groups of instructions (like single
> > float, double float, mad, etc.) as well as a scheduling or otherwise
> > quirky policy, and then allowing the instruction flags to be
> > overridden.
> > 
> 
> Do you mean within the assembler or the compiler?  I"m definitely
> thinking of something similar for the compiler (look at the arm port for
> examples), and am working on the infrastructure changes necessary to
> support this.

I meant within the assembler, but the consensus seems to be that it's a
bad idea.

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