Re: question about MIPS dynasm syntax

  • From: Mike Pall <mike-1311@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:09:50 +0100

Jiong. Wang wrote:
> |. and TMP1, PC, AT
> 
> a "." following "|", what does the "|." combination mean for a normal
> instruction? looks like there is no specific handling of this in
> dynasm/dynasm.lua.

This is a no-op macro defined in vm_mips.dasc. It's only a
reminder for branch delay slots. This is to avoid human error when
moving around instructions (e.g. when hand-optimizing latencies).

--Mike

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