On Fri, 6 Feb 2015, Mike Stump wrote: > > This consideration made me realise I've had a patch outstanding for some > > 10 years to convert all the `BAL x' instructions there to `BLTZAL $0, x'. > > This has always been a good idea in case implementations recognised the > > special case and avoided involving branch prediction, and I believe it has > > become even more apparent with r6 calling it NAL. > > Ick, no.
Hmm, have you hit `send' too quickly by any chance? There's surely a further part missing from your post where you'd explain what you mean. Maciej
