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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: karthikeyan natarajan <karthik_96cse@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: In r4k, where does PC point to?
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:42:19AM +0000, karthikeyan natarajan wrote:

>     Basically, the PC points to the next instruction
> to
> be executed. But, in R4k, there are 8 instructions
> getting executed in parallel. Where does the PC point
> to? My understanding is that PC points to the next 
> instruction that will be entered into the pipeline.
>     Please correct me if i am wrong..

The fact that instructions are issued in a pipeline is not visible in
the EPC value.

  Ralf