Sometimes you don't care whether you do only "half" a macro instruction if the branch is taken. Usually though, the warning is a good thing - I remember having spent many hours finding bugs like this with assemblers that don't issue warnings. /Hartvig Greg Lindahl writes: > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:47:31PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > A few warnings are unavoidable -- e.g. there is no way to shut up gas > > complaining about macros expanding into multiple instructions in branch > > delay slots. Too bad. > > ... why isn't that a bug? > > greg