PATCH: Fix ll/sc for mips (take 3)
Daniel Jacobowitz
dan@debian.org
Fri Feb 1 15:02:00 GMT 2002
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:29:43AM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:45:02PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, H . J . Lu wrote:
> >
> > > > Gas will fill delay slots. Same object codes will be produced, so I
> > > > think you don't have to do that by hand.
> > >
> > > It will make the code more readable. We don't have to guess what
> > > the assembler will do.
> >
> > But you lose a chance for something useful being reordered to the slot.
> > That might not necessarily be a "nop". Please don't forget of indents
> > anyway.
> >
>
> Here is a new patch. I use branch likely to get rid of nops. Please
> tell me which indents I may have missed.
Can you really assume presence of the branch-likely instruction? I
don't think so.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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