Question about insn lengths

[Eric Christopher]

> Well, it doesn't seem to be difficult to fix the situation in the
> assembler. In fact, the binutils I have (patched for r5900, naturally)
> currently emits a warning if the loop is too short.
> 
> However, I've seen other places where CPU errata is handled by gcc,
> which made me think there is a policy that gcc should always generate
> correct assembly for the target processor. You wouldn't know if it is
> so? Inserting the nops in the assembler might be easier, even.

For this case you'll definitely want to deal with it in the assembler
for a couple of reasons:

user defined macro instructions
it's just easier

The sony development toolchain should have a patch already to do this.

-eric

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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>