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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: jump instruction in delay slot
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Thomas Koeller wrote:

> 		jal	do_IRQ
> 		j	ret_from_irq

Beyond what Thiemo has said correctly ...  in the cases where I've tried
to debug code where a jmp or branch instruction was being executed in the
delay slot of another jump or branch instruction the CPU does *really*
unexpected things.

  Ralf