> I did play with a test program and can't reproduce the effect with my > assembler. I have darm memories of gas immitating some > obscure behaviour > of the IRIX assembler and I think it doesn't do so for all > MIPS targets. > > So I'm wandering what toolchain have you been using? > > Ralf > The toolchain is from Wind River Systems 2.0 Linux Edition. The kernel (based on 2.6.21.7) is also supplied by Wind River, and it has preemption turned on. The CPU is a Broadcom/SiByte BCM1125H (single core version of BCM1250 Swarm.) Morten