[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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