was this change to MIPS assembly intentional?

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On 6 Feb 2002, Eric Christopher wrote:

> > But I wanted to be sure that it was intentional.  8-)
> 
> Probably. It likely came in with the work that Thiemo is doing on
> abi/register size.

 Logical immediate machine instructions use zero-extension of their 16-bit
argument as well, so it makes sense for a 64-bit ABI.  For a 32-bit one it
certainly does not, as the high-order 32 bits should always be a copy of
bit 31 then.

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