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Re: RTEMS Patch for binutils 2.9.1



  In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9905131237110.501-100000@oar3remote>you write:
  > My understanding was that these were pretty critical instructions for an
  > OS implementation.  Doesn't one of the other open-source OSes have a need
  > for these as well?
Not really.  The only ones I ever would have found useful would be movement
to/from the shadow regs.  Hmmm, actually we may have had an assembler macro
to create mtcpu/mfcpu instructions using .word directives.  It's hard to
remember since I haven't done PA OS work in a while.

jeff

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