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   John Levine to All   
   Re: instruction ordering, was Memory ord   
   12 Dec 25 01:41:41   
   
   From: johnl@taugh.com   
      
   According to Thomas Koenig  :   
   >MitchAlsup  schrieb:   
   >   
   >> Heck, there are assemblers that rearrange code like this too much--   
   >> until they can be taught not to.   
   >   
   >Any example?  This would definitely go against what I would consider   
   >to be reasonable for an assembler.  gdb certainly does not do so.   
      
   On machines with delayed branches I've seen assemblers that move   
   instructions into the delay slot.  Can't think of any others off hand.   
      
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   John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for   
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