Help from Kernel Gurus needed!!!

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	If you are just trying to copy r1 into r0, why not use move
> regsiter instead of add immediate as the following:
> 
> 	__asm__ ("mr %0,1" : "=r" (p) : );

Hehe, the clue is that IBM/Motorola didn't implement instructions that perform
operations that can be done in a different manner, too.

`mr' is just an alias for add with zero.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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