[PATCH] PPC64 Poor assembly coding style

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Tue Nov 9 08:40:22 EST 2004


Linas Vepstas writes:

> Doug Maxey reported a bug with the latest/greatest gas assembler
> that demonstrates some poor coding style in entry.S and head.S.
> The following patch cleans up that style, and also avoids assembler
> confusion.  Basically, in entry.S,
> 
>  cmpldi  0,r0,NR_syscalls   should be written as either
> 
>  cmpldi  r0,NR_syscalls   or as    cmpldi  cr0,r0,NR_syscalls

What is the actual bug here?

Paul.



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