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Re: Better mnemonic for PowerPC
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 03:53:11PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Can I make any version of GCC (maybe an experimental snapshot) output
> PowerPC instructions in a less terse format?
>
> I mean, instead of "addi 3,4,5" (which is IMHO not very user-friendly) I'd
> like to see "addi %r3,%r4,5". Both mnemonics are supported by gas (at
> least by the recent versions).
>
> "-mnew-mnemonics" doesn't have the desired effect with gcc-2.95.2
But -mregnames does. What -mnew-mnemonics controls is whether the instructions
use the PowerPC mnemonics vs. the Power mnemonics (add vs. cax).
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