MIPS gas relaxation still doesn't work

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Mon Oct 14 12:39:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:37:37PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2002, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
> 
> > Why do we need nop? Why do we need noreorder?
> 
> We need reorder to indicate that the delay slot is already filled.  I
> used nop just because it was the easiest form of delay-slot filling I
> could think of.  Think of any other valid delay-slot filling
> instruction in there.

Can gcc not to emit nop nor noreorder when it tries to fill the delay
slot with nop?


H.J.



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