Tony, I'm sure I missed that point about brl. I probably just assumed it would have the same behavior as regular branches. Thanks for catching that. --david On 4/27/07, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As I remember it, a taken branch acts as a stop whereas a non-taken > branch doesn't (so if no explicit stop bit is following a branch, then > it must be OK for the entire group to be executed in parallel). I > suppose it's possible the definition changed or that my (admittedly > bad) memory is playing tricks on me. ;-) The SDM page for "brl" doesn't look to have any get-out-of stop-bits-free option. It says: "This instruction must be immediately followed by a stop; otherwise its behaviour is undefined." -Tony
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