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Unverified Commit 378ed6f0 authored by Paul Burton's avatar Paul Burton
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MIPS: Avoid using .set mips0 to restore ISA



We currently have 2 commonly used methods for switching ISA within
assembly code, then restoring the original ISA.

  1) Using a pair of .set push & .set pop directives. For example:

     .set	push
     .set	mips32r2
     <some_insn>
     .set	pop

  2) Using .set mips0 to restore the ISA originally specified on the
     command line. For example:

     .set	mips32r2
     <some_insn>
     .set	mips0

Unfortunately method 2 does not work with nanoMIPS toolchains, where the
assembler rejects the .set mips0 directive like so:

     Error: cannot change ISA from nanoMIPS to mips0

In preparation for supporting nanoMIPS builds, switch all instances of
method 2 in generic non-platform-specific code to use push & pop as in
method 1 instead. The .set push & .set pop is arguably cleaner anyway,
and if nothing else it's good to consistently use one method.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/21037/
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
parent 183b40f9
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