load instruction on MIPS R2000 and R3000

Chris Wagner jwag at moose.sgi.com
Fri Mar 16 04:55:59 AEST 1990


In article <1990Mar14.165530.17748 at hellgate.utah.edu>,
moore%cdr.utah.edu at cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore) writes:
> On the MIPS R2000 and R3000 processors, does the following instruction
> have predictable results?
> 
> 	lw	$1,some_disp($1)
> 
> $1 is also $at and is used internally by the MIPS assembler, but I'm
> not using the MIPS assembler.
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim Moore                     moore at cs.utah.edu
{bellcore,hplabs}!utah-cs!moore
> "Ah, youth. Ah, statute of limitations."
> 		-John Waters

No problem, this is just fine (if your your doing your own pipeline
scheduling remember
to wait once instruction before accessing AT).

Chris Wagner



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