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Re: was this change to MIPS assembly intentional?



> 
> But I wanted to be sure that it was intentional.  8-)
> 
> 

Probably. It likely came in with the work that Thiemo is doing on
abi/register size.

> Maybe for 2.12, for MIPS, the release notes should say something like:
> 
> 	The MIPS assembler has significantly changed since the
> 	previous release, and some code is assembled differently than
> 	it has been with previous releases.  Take care when upgrading
> 	MIPS binutils to 2.12 if you are using hand-coded assembly.

I'd be all for that.

-eric

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