On Oct 14, 2002, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote: > Why do we need nop? Why do we need noreorder? We need reorder to indicate that the delay slot is already filled. I used nop just because it was the easiest form of delay-slot filling I could think of. Think of any other valid delay-slot filling instruction in there. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer