Re: PATCH: Fix ll/sc for mips (take 3)

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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.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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