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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:26:22 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pcb_onfault bug on alpha?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002242025480.8714-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <200002241658.IAA39924@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, John Polstra wrote:

> On a related topic, do you have any idea why they did all this
> ".set noat" nonsense in copyout instead of simply using t0 to set
> pcb_onfault as is done elsewhere?  I can't see any reason why they'd
> need to preserve t0 at this point.

I can't think of a reason. Changing to use t0 would be the same number of
instructions but the code would be neater...

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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