Re: Delay slots

Andrew Cagney <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:17:58 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.pmax,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
Message-ID <CAJeAr6s9VsbvcwpRen3tVfvOaof_7_3jHSODbP9eVUFmnLOvjQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 21 June 2016 at 01:09, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > If someone could provide a useful list of problematic instructions and
>> > mention architectures suffering problems, this could be a good tool.
>
> Not a generic MIPS problem - sparc has delay slots too, with most jumps
> having a bit to cancel the instruction in it. I'm not sure about other
> architectures but I guess the reason why they exist don't apply to just
> MIPS and SPARC.

Wikipedia lists lots of architectures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_slot