It doesn't seem to be a problem with the 2.96 mipsel-linux- assembler, but it caused me a problem with my 4.0-based toolchain. (As it was the local_irq_restore left the assembler in 'reorder' mode and a stack pointer post-inc was reordered out of the return delay slot where it belonged.) Luckily we have a sharp compiler guy who figured it out. Thanks.
As usual, there may be a reason for this, but it took me a whole day to find it, and I thought I'd point it out.
Ed Martini
$ diff -uN interrupt.h interrupt-new.h --- interrupt.h 2005-03-29 17:35:02.922362384 -0800 +++ interrupt-new.h 2005-03-29 17:33:26.350770293 -0800 @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
__asm__ ( ".macro\tlocal_irq_restore flags\n\t" + ".set\tpush\n\t" ".set\tnoreorder\n\t" ".set\tnoat\n\t" "mfc0\t$1, $12\n\t" @@ -109,8 +110,7 @@ "or\t\\flags, $1\n\t" "mtc0\t\\flags, $12\n\t" "irq_disable_hazard\n\t" - ".set\tat\n\t" - ".set\treorder\n\t" + ".set\tpop\n\t" ".endm");