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Re: MIPS Assembly.

Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> Paul;
> 
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 05:59:13PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> > 
> > Well, this is just an opinion from an interested observer, but in my
> > opinion, with that wrapper the assembler should NOT convert j to b, so
> > if it does and then complains I'd call that an assembler bug.

Well, it would be an external jump to an unnamed local label...

> There is no "b" instruction in the MIPS32 ISA. All the branches are 
> conditional.

Paul meant

	beqz $0, <label>

which the (dis-)assembler shows as

	b <label>


Thiemo
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