mtlo/mflo instructions when issue width is increased (MIPS 5kc)

Cherry Vanc cherry.vanc@gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 23:59:00 GMT 2014


I added a functional unit to the MIPS 5kc backend for memory
operations and noticed that a function started getting mtlo / mflo
instructions in the prologue/epilogue. The function does not have any
mult/div instructions.

When I debug the source of these instructions, I can only tap into the
code path when GCC is looking for the instruction suiting the RTL
pattern (final.c).

Why are these instructions being generated when I simply just added a
functional unit to the pipeline description ? How can I debug why they
are being generated in the first place ?

Thanks



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