Question about insn lengths

Pontus Lidman pontus@lysator.liu.se
Tue Nov 2 21:45:00 GMT 2004


Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:

> Pontus Lidman writes:

[...]

>  > For example, I noticed that the 'mfhilo_si' insn has length attribute
>  > 12 (because of possible future nops due to hazards I gather), but
>  > generates only one instruction word (mflo, for example), so the value
>  > I need for this insn is 4.
> 
> Where do the hazard nops get inserted?  The assembler?

Yes, if they are needed.

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