On 21 May 2016 08:11:35 BST, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Fri, 20 May 2016, James Hogan wrote: > >> To me this makes it easier to read since it is much shorter, but it >also >> ensures .insn is used, preventing objdump disassembling the microMIPS >> code as normal MIPS. > >More importantly the use of `.insn' prevents execution from going >astray >if there's a label being jumped to at the handcoded instruction. Right. in my builds i couldn't find any examples of this happening, only relative branches (the only diff when adding .insn seemed to be objdump -d printing as microMIPS, but tbh i didn't compare data sections), but perhaps it could still happen with a different configuration or toolchain? Grepping the disassembly though i did find various other cases of MIPS disassembly amongst microMIPS that i have yet to identify. thanks James
