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Re: [Patch] [MIPS] Change opcode membership for the ssnop and ehb instructions
- From: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford at googlemail dot com>
- To: Catherine Moore <clm at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 22:46:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: [Patch] [MIPS] Change opcode membership for the ssnop and ehb instructions
- References: <4BF578C0.80803@codesourcery.com>
Catherine Moore <clm@codesourcery.com> writes:
> This patch changes the opcode membership for the ssnop instruction to
> I1 from I32 | N55. It also changes the opcode membership of the ehb
> instruction to I32 from I33. For those ASE's which don't support ehb
> and/or ssnop, the instruction executes as a nop. This change make the
> disassembly read more cleanly. Does this look okay to install?
I'm not convinced this is a good idea. Do we really want:
.set mips32
ehb
to be acceptable?
Richard