Nerd Expo

In the inline assemby, you can change the cpu mode with a directive such as .set mips4. Unfortunately, the objdump doesn't know this directive since it only looks at the object file. Sometimes it'll incorrectly decode a machine code.

I ran into this problem with the prefetch code. The assembly instruction pref was decoded to lw??. You have to provide a cpu mode options to objdump similar to how to specify the cpu mode to the compiler.

# posted by Mack @ 1:08 AM