From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: karthikeyan natarajan <karthik_96cse@yahoo.com>
Cc: Dominic Sweetman <dom@mips.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: In r4k, where does PC point to?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:22:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119152214.GA9933@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040119151403.71569.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com>
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:14:03PM +0000, karthikeyan natarajan wrote:
> > Which is true, but perhaps a bit cryptic given the
> > question.
> >
> > A MIPS CPU does not have a register called "PC". In
>
> In the r4k user manual, it is mentioned that there is
> a special register PC in the core CPU (other than the
> HI & LO special registers). Could you please let me
> know the purpose of this register?
Obviously the CPU needs to know where to fetch the next instruction from
or for computing the destination address of branch and jump instructions
or the value to put into the programmer visible EPC and ErrorEPC registers
etc. The PC register is an internal register that isn't visible to the
programmer.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-19 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-19 7:42 In r4k, where does PC point to? karthikeyan natarajan
2004-01-19 14:50 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-01-19 14:57 ` Dominic Sweetman
2004-01-19 15:14 ` karthikeyan natarajan
2004-01-19 15:22 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2004-01-19 15:45 ` karthikeyan natarajan
2004-01-19 17:08 ` Dominic Sweetman
2004-01-19 16:30 ` Dominic Sweetman
2004-01-19 16:49 ` karthikeyan natarajan
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