Re: [RFA] mips32_next_pc overdue cleanup

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+ at andrew dot cmu dot edu>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:46:32AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > According to the masks in the opcodes
> > directory, these changes are rigt, and what we had before can't possibly
> > work.  Especially the fact that we would never, ever predict a BNE as taken
> > before these changes convinced me that they really were correct and this
> > code had never been particularly tested.  Comments?
> 
> I'd appreciate a short test case for this.  I'd like to verify that
> the previous stuff indeed didn't work and that the new stuff does.
> 
> Assuming that this code is run on SGI Irix, that is.

I'll try to make one.  I'm not immediately sure how.

It looks almost as if this code was for an unreleased port inside
Cygnus - anyone know if that's true?  I see active work on it in 1998
and 2000 in the ChangeLogs, and no mention of removing calls to it
- but nothing uses it at all.