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Re: ssnop for mips
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- Subject: Re: ssnop for mips
- From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:05:49 +0200
Eric Christopher wrote:
[snip]
> > For what its worth, I agree with this. If you disssassemble MIPS 1
> > instructions and you see ``ssnop'' you're going to wonder the what the
> > .... is this?
> >
>
> Worth quite a bit actually. I thought (esp since I don't have a manual
> with me) that ssnop was in there and just omitted at one point. I know
> that it exists on some MIPSIV processors.
The R10000 has not (at least it's not documented), and ssnop is not
part of MIPS IV, so the special guarantees of ssnop are not valid
here.
> We could add it in there...
I think it should be restricted to MIPS32/MIPS64/the processor which
defines ssnop explicitly.
Thiemo