"Brandon H. Dwiel" <bhdw...@ncsu.edu> writes: > I would like to make the changes necessary so that the compiler expects the > PC of the > instruction directly after the branch to be put in the $ra register. > > I cannot locate where it is specified that PC+8 of an "and link" instruction > is to > be put in the $ra so that I may change it.
It's not specified in that way. Instead, it's specified that jalr has a delay slot. See the uses of define_delay in gcc/config/mips/mips.md. Ian