Re: WAW and RAW warnings in kernel build

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:36:11 -0700, Richard Harke <rharke@earthlink.net> said:

  Richard> Before trying to locate the precise lines in the kernel, I
  Richard> tried an experiment.  I I took a small routine in assembly
  Richard> from the book "IA64 and Elementary Functions" (page 36) and
  Richard> assembled it.  I got several WAW warnings. All the
  Richard> instructions involved are predicated with it arranged that
  Richard> only one predicate will be true. But apparently the
  Richard> assembler can't detect that.

Those are easy (.pred.rel.mutex) and already taken care of in the
kernel.

	--david