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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: sti() does not work.
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:35:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010713133517.C1378@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010705132623.11517D-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:35:11PM +0200

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:35:11PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > > (why is noreorder used here?).
> > 
> > Without the .set noreorder the assembler would be free to do arbitrary
> > reordering of the object code generated.  Gas doesn't do that but there
> > are other assemblers that do flow analysis and may generate object code
> > that doesn't look very much like the source they were fed with.
> 
>  Hmm, I would consider that a bug in such an assembler.  The mtc0 and
> possibly the mfc0 opcode should be treated as reordering barriers as they
> may involve side effects an assembler might not be aware of. 

Assembler is the art of using sideeffects so things are fairly explicit.
Optimizations are controlled using

  .set noreorder / reorder
  .set volatile / novolatile
  .set nomove / nomove
  .set nobopt / bopt

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-13 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-03 22:48 sti() does not work Steven Liu
2001-07-03 22:48 ` Steven Liu
2001-07-04 10:23 ` Thiemo Seufer
2001-07-04 12:23   ` Gleb O. Raiko
2001-07-04 13:26   ` Ralf Baechle
2001-07-05 11:35     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-07-13 11:35       ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-07-13 14:01         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-07-14 11:04           ` Ralf Baechle
2001-07-14 11:39             ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-07-14 11:39               ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-07-16 12:46             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-07-04 13:29 ` Ralf Baechle

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