> > Seems to me, this mips32 release 2 is an extension of > > mips32, added some new instructions, eg. EHB, etc. So > > would it be necessary that gcc be updated, like what > > gnu as has done, in the future to reflect this > > extension? > > It will be in the soon to be released 3.4. Contributed by Chris > Demetriou of Broadcom. We added patterns to let our (old) GCC use the new rotates and bit-insert/extracts, at least in simple cases. I'm not sure whether we've put those in our 3.4 evolution tree yet, but if we have we should push those out. -- Dominic Sweetman MIPS Technologies.
