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Re: Recent change to mips_output_move
>
> As I understand it, .set nomacro only warns about multi-instruction
> macros, not single-instruction ones. We've been using move, li and
> dli in delay slots for a long time.
>
Pretty sure I was getting a warning about move. I'll double check later
though.
> In case it's any reassurance: for the last few months, I've been
> testing with a version of gas in which all .set nomacro warnings
> are hard errors. I haven't seen it cause any problems.
>
> > (Really should commit move_register to using or though...)
>
> Why's that?
>
So that we're not getting unexpected sign extends on some platforms and
not on others (bcm1250). This way, we're just moving a value, nothing
more.
-eric
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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>