On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> I note that Ralf has, in fact, applied the fix to the
> OSS CVS repository. I also note that "BARRIER"
> is still defined to be a string of 6 nops. I would argue
> (again) that those really, really ought to be ssnops,
> and that if they *were* ssnops, one could probably
> have fewer of them.
Sorry for being ignorant, but what's the difference between nop and ssnop?
I see that SSNOP is defined to be `sll zero,zero,1' in <asm/asm.h>, but that
doesn't give me any clue.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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