In article <20060827063328.7AA97211CA@cvs.netbsd.org>,
Izumi Tsutsui  <tsutsui@netbsd.org> wrote:
>
>Module Name:	src
>Committed By:	tsutsui
>Date:		Sun Aug 27 06:33:28 UTC 2006
>
>Modified Files:
>	src/sys/arch/newsmips/include: param.h
>
>Log Message:
>Replace DELAY(9) macro with inline version which uses an asm statement
>otherwise gcc4 will omit it completely on optimization.
>
>XXX: some other mips ports have the same problem.

This is really not needed. It is better to make the counter volatile.

christos