Re: mftbl in powerpc/include/cpu.h?

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Subject: Re: mftbl in powerpc/include/cpu.h?
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney%mac.com@localhost>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:06:54 -0400

Andrew Cagney writes:

"mftbl" is a valid simplified mnemonic.



Andrew> Perhaphs, the assembler in 1.5.3 doesn't appear to support it.

        Presumably not.  The GNU assembler has included that mnemonic
since August 2000.

Anyway, can it please be changed to ``mftb %0'' so that the kernel canbe compiled with either current or the 1.5.x series compiler?


enjoy,
Andrew

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