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Adding a MIPS hardware bug work-around to GAS...

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Wed May 26 15:08:00 GMT 2004 
Hi Steven,

> I am trying to work-around a hardware bug 

Note that in general patching software to work around a hardware bug is 
a bad idea.  Hardware designers should always be encouraged to 
thoroughly test their designs before releasing them.  In the real world 
of course patching the software is often a lot cheaper than fixing the 
hardware so this kind of thing does happen.  *sigh*


> I think that the proper solution is to place the work-around
> inside of GAS. 

> I just could not
> find a nice way in the MIPS .md file for GCC to do this. Thoughts?

There is already a precedent for doing this.  See the code for the 
-mfix-vr4120 in gas/config/tc-mips.c for an example.

Cheers
   Nick
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