Breakpoints in delay slots

Andrew STUBBS andrew.stubbs@st.com
Thu Oct 19 09:52:00 GMT 2006


Michael Snyder wrote:
> Sorry to be terse, but...
> 
> (1) -O0

Actually it can still happen that the first instruction in a line is the 
nop in the delay slot, but that can be considered a compiler bug.

> (2) "Don't do that".

That's hardly the developer's choice.

In the real world people sometimes have to debug optimised code and 
"don't do it" is not a useful answer.

Andrew



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