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On 01/07/2015 09:21 AM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 01/07/2015 02:28 PM, Jayachandran C wrote:
[...]
>> +
>> +    /* thread 0 of each core. */
>> +    li    t0, CKSEG1ADDR(RESET_DATA_PHYS)
>
>     Hm, does this get auto-expanded into several instructions?
>

Of course, it is a standard magic MIPS assembler macro that expands to 
the instructions necessary to load a 32-bit integer constant into the 
register.  It is perfectly normal and acceptable code.

David Daney