Re: Fixing MIPS delay slot emulation weakness?

From: Aaro Koskinen
Date: Mon Dec 17 2018 - 20:13:53 EST


Hi,

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 01:55:28AM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> As to actual implementations I believe all the Cavium Octeon line CPUs
> (David, please correct me if I am wrong) have no FPU and they have vendor
> extensions beyond the base ISA + ASE instruction set. Arguably you could
> say that their additional instructions should not be scheduled into FPU
> branch delay slots then, however the toolchain will happily do that, as I
> wrote before.

Octeon III added/introduced FPU.

A.