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Re: how to implement pipeline errata?

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:44:36PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:57:58PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > I recommend doing this sort of thing in the assembler instead - the
> > impact is pretty small.
> 
> I recommend at most *warning* about this in the assembler.
> I have an extreme dislike for assemblers that "fix" things
> for you.

That's going to do little good if the user is writing C or C++ and gets
warnings from the assembler that the code is no good.

The assembler could have an optional flag to do fixups, and gcc could
turn on the flag.
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