On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:43:00PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:

 > > Could someone MIPS knowledgeful out there provide me the handy rule of
 > > thumb to use ".set noreorder" for the purpose of protecting
 > > instruction sequencing? 
 > 
 > Do you mean "when to use it", or "what does it do"?

My rule of thumb is:

	When hand-coding assembly, the human knows what is going on,
	so use `noreorder'.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>