From: "Brian K. Neidig" <brian.neidig@natinst.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: What is the NIP?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:18:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37B60738.E1E4B2F7@natinst.com> (raw)
I've looked throughout the code for a comment describing this, but
couldn't find it. What is the purpose of the NIP? I think it is NOT
QUITE the IP, but I don't know what it is supposed to be. In one place
I saw the NIP being set to the instruction before a branch instruction,
but other things seem to be happening with this variable.
Does it stand for anything? If I knew that, all may become clearer!
For example, is it New Instruction Pointer? Or what?
Brian
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1999-08-15 0:18 Brian K. Neidig [this message]
1999-08-15 1:32 ` What is the NIP? David A. Gatwood
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