>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Wilson <wilson@redhat.com> writes:
>> Can gcc not to emit nop nor noreorder when it tries to fill the
>> delay slot with nop?
Jim> You never want the assembler to try to fill delay slots.
Jim> Consider a compiler optimization like software pipelining. ...
Jim> Meanwhile, we need to get out of
Jim> the habit of relying on assembler optimizations. In the long
Jim> run, assembler optimizations are bad, and we need to stop using
Jim> them as soon as possible. Gcc should emit .set
Jim> nomacro/noreorder/noat/etc at the begining of its assembly
Jim> output, and never turn them on.
Makes sense to me. As an assembly language programmer, I do the same
thing in handwritten code, for the same reasons.
paul
