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[PATCH] MIPS32 DSP instructions again

Eric Christopher echristo@redhat.com
Thu Jun 9 20:14:00 GMT 2005 
FWIW, I agree with Ian and Paul completely on what they've said.

This though:
> 
> A final argument against labelling each and every ASE in the opcode 
> tables, is that you might then argue yourself into saying that the ASEs 
> also need to be recorded within the ELF header, so that the disassembler 
> and debugger can decide whether or not to decode those instructions, or 
> a kernel can decide whether or not to run an executable - but we're 
> running out of spare bits in there! :-)

True, and if we weren't running out of spare bits that's exactly what
we'd be doing. The lack of bits is the only reason we've not done that
to date.

-eric
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