[patch] MIPS: Fix synthesized doubleword transfers (ping)
Thiemo Seufer
ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
Wed Mar 2 02:22:00 GMT 2005
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
[snip]
> > [ Although, as is probably clear from earlier messages, my preference is
> > to keep things the way they are, and require any symbolic component to
> > be 8-byte aligned. I've never heard of any practical problems with that
> > restriction. OTOH, after the above, I don't have any new data or
> > arguments to add, so I'll shut up now ;) ]
FWIW, I agree with Richard.
> It works with native 64-bit transfers -- why should it be broken with
> their 32-bit macro counterparts?
>
> Actually I wouldn't mind ditching these macros altogether. ;-)
They are IMHO a bad idea (but not bad enough to remove them).
Thiemo
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